Change is a process: future is a destination. People want a sense of hope, possibility and pride about Britain.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

As Development Secretary, I have seen in the developing world that climate change there is not a theory, is not a future threat: it is a contemporary crisis.

Building the future holds more attraction than ancestor worship, whichever ancestor we're talking about.