Today further EU targeted sanctions on Syria come into force. The message is clear and unambiguous: those responsible for the repression will be singled out and held accountable.

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

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.