An awful lot of countries were making an awful lot of money while people were suffering in Iraq. These countries should be ashamed of themselves.

What was striking was that when he became prime minister, he seemed to grow into the role immediately.

The Saddam regime was sustained by illegal smuggling that amounted to some $11 billion. The U.N. Security Council , including the U.S. and Britain, did very little to stop that.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

The first rule of good theatre is 'Show, don't tell.' It applies to good political action as well.

Job cuts are mainly coming from manufacturers, who are still suffering. We are going to see further increases in the claimant count rate and the odds of any sort of wage inflation problem emerging are diminishing rapidly.