As far as I’m aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there’s a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.
I don’t think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course – and it’s important to stress this – you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.
I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn’t mean it was a good idea to be on it.
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.
Well, if you’re looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who’d be like that – totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you’ll get the politicians you deserve.
We’re not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let’s be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.
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.
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.
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.
On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong – having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.
It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.