The reality is, there is no point denying this, that Tony has taken a big political hit as a result of what is perceived to be a strong relationship with President Bush.

He has said he is going to stay for a full term and I think it is absolutely right that he does that,

The EU is Russia's largest trading partner, and we are increasingly interdependent. It is on our interest that we cooperate more on issues such as drugs, crime, terrorism, weapons of destruction and the Balkans.

If it's a fundamental principle, the length of the grass doesn't matter.

When your lordships carefully and critically examine the evidence, they will be driven by that to conclude that each of the accused is guilty of murder,

It is going to need a lot of continuing work talking to the parties before we can get to the stage of a new round of intensive negotiations.