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

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.

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.

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.

A generation of children has been betrayed.