I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.
You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
If thereย's one thing above all that sets me apart from Tony Blair, itยs this: Iยm not embarrassed to articulate the instincts of the British people.