Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

Most social problems could be helped or prevented if people had more money and practical advice.

It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.

Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.