Fighting poverty is nothing new for the Conservative Party, but during the 1980s the emphasis placed on individualism and prosperity was sometimes seen to crowd out social issues like helping the most vulnerable in society.
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
When eco-towns were first announced we said that we would support environmentally-friendly development where local communities supported the home-building; where infrastructure was in place and where the growth was genuinely green.
I went to Manchester poly for two years.
There should be a way of saying to people 'thank you very much, it has not worked out but here is a good decent package for you to move on from this role and we will support you to move on into other jobs, so it is not a hire and fire thing'; and those are the sorts of changes that Conservatives would like to see.
Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.
I've always been tenacious. I don't let go of things until I think it's fixed. On the other hand I'm a fairly jovial, smiley person.
I always think there's some value in saying no with a smile.
I like being Jewish and I married a Jewish girl. It's like a way of life and it's good to be able to instil some of that sense of being in your kids. All of that makes me seem as though I am quite observant but actually the flipside of this is I don't know if there is a God or not.
I suspect I have a relationship with my religion which will seem slightly weird to people who don't understand me.
I think it is absolutely inevitable that Palestinians will, and have to, have their own state.
I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.
Most people don't get the chance to do whatever their dream in life was. I have ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do and it has been more enjoyable, challenging, stretching and fulfilling than I would have dared to imagine.
We are the workers' party. We are the party of the hard working individual.
I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.
Before I went into parliament I used to write business publications, and like many authors wrote under a business name.
My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.
Gordon Brown doesn't often spring surprises. He's usually far too cautious to deliver the unexpected.
The reality is that it would be wiser and even kinder for politicians to be responsible about what they claim the NHS will do, because the pain of having raised expectations for parents who are desperate to start a family, only to see those hopes crushed, is more cruel than having said nothing at all.
For anyone who has found it easy to conceive, it is perhaps hard to imagine how IVF can become all-encompassing in someone's life. The endless check-ups, scans, tests, periods of waiting and finally the day when you learn the result. It's a physically punishing process for the women and an emotionally exhausting process for both partners.
