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.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

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

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

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