In my view what you can't argue for is a system that is neither decisive nor proportional and can be indecisive and disproportionate at the same time.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

You can see over time whether people are prepared to differ or not.

Time is not on Gaddafi's side. People ask about the exit strategy. It's Colonel Gaddafi who needs an exit strategy because this pressure will only mount and it will be intensified over the coming days and weeks.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.