I believe that the United Kingdom can stay at the forefront in leading the world's growth and development and also continue to play an important and even bigger role for regional stability and global peace.

Openness has been vital to Asia's fast growth in the past and it will continue to be crucial for the area's further development.

In the past, proactive fiscal polices almost always meant just more investment and an increase in the fiscal deficit.

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

Let's not go through that again. Redirect it, reduce the amount of money spent, but let's not destroy it. Because you don't know 10 years out what you're going to face.

It's appalling how much money raised at some charity events gets wasted on paying personnel and admin staff.

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound!