Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

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

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Someone once claimed I was not really a Yorkshireman!

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.