In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.