There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

There is good evidence that last year's European heat wave was influenced by global warming. It resulted in 26,000 premature deaths and cost $13.5bn.

Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

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.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.