So good on them. And whether it is a year or two years, it actually will be a sensible process of combining the talents that we have. |
Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being. |
The economy of our country, international trade and the free transport of people would have all been completely disrupted. ... This would have been a catastrophic thing to have done. |
The people we are dealing with are sophisticated, well organized and entirely ruthless, but they are also in a position to exploit the very freedoms we seek to protect. |
the state has a role in helping people through rapid economic change. But not as a permanent safety net. |
The terrorist threat remains real, and serious |
There has been a real change, we've done a good job in the last two years on intelligence. There are 2,700 who will not be here who are often the ringleaders, |
There is always an effort to link the public and the private. |
They should go back home and re-create their countries which we have freed from tyranny, whether it is Kosovo or now Afghanistan. I have no sympathy whatsoever with young men in their twenties who do not. |
This situation cannot continue. |
Tony asked me to stay. It could only have damaged the Prime Minister if I had stayed on. |
We all accept that there is a compelling need for more effective powers to exclude and remove suspected terrorists from our country, |
We didn't consider closing Heathrow Airport because those who are threatening us would have been the victors, |
We have close connections to the rightwing press, |
We obviously have the right to go back to Parliament and to say 'We, the sovereign body who are elected, are the only ones in the end who are answerable for the protection of security and stability in our country,' |