I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.

Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

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.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally...