Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter carnage and terror which has engulfed so many innocent people. We've offered President Bush and the American people our solidarity, our profound sympathy, and our prayers. But it is plain that citizens of many countries round the world, including Britain, will have been caught up in this terror.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

Leaders lead but in the end it's the people who deliver.

We promise that the events of 1991 will not happen again. We have pledged to remove Saddam. And we will deliver.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Ah yes, liberal democrats unified as ever in opportunism and in error.