I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.

The circumstances of our national security have now self-evidently changed,

Nine days of headlines should not obscure nine years of achievements. When you are in government you have to take the hard decisions and sometimes you make mistakes.

a very strong and clear declaration of our support and solidarity for the United States and secondly a series of specific measures we will take -- both European and national.

military planning is well under way in NATO, with the full support of EU member states, in case diplomacy alone proves inadequate.

The idea will be to have a broad-based government and then next year, to move to a new constitution, and then finally to democratic elections ... so who's going to end up governing Iraq ultimately? It's going to be the Iraqi people with a democratic constitution,