Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

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.

It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty.

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

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