Opening remarks

• There has been a step change in the delivery of public services in the last year

• NHS waiting times are falling and deaths from cancer and heart disease are down

• There is a problem with "alcohol-fuelled violent crime" but "there is little doubt that crime is falling"

• Mr Blair rejected claims plans to extend opening hours would cause more crime and unruly behaviour.

• "It should be possible to have more flexible opening hours without people go on the rampage and fighting."

• Teacher numbers and academic standards are up.

• Progress on public services is "becoming irreversible"

• The government's economic record has given it a "strong foundation on which to build for the future"

• The next round of reforms will not be "a change of direction" but it "a change of gear" putting people "at the heart of services"

• Public service reforms are "ambitious, challenging" and show the government is "renewing itself in office"

• Government has had a "testing time" over past few months but has come through "strengthened and renewed"

Iraq and Butler

• He refused to accept he had misled people over Iraqi arms and rejected suggestions he should "carry the can" over the Butler report saying he wanted to see the government's five year targets through

• When asked whether he had ever considered quitting he said: "No"

• He still believes he was right over the Iraq war. "Had we backed away from enforcing resolutions against Iraq then we would have left Saddam in charge of Iraq - an unsafe and insecure country"

• He paid tribute to those who had lost their lives saying: "They gave their lives in a cause that is important for us and the wider world"

• With regard to the Butler report on pre-war intelligence he brushed off questions on his failure to pass on concerns about that intelligence, saying the intelligence showed clearly Saddam Hussein was a threat

• "People don't do balance. Either all the evidence was wrong or all of it was right"

Sudan

• "The situation there is unacceptable and of course we have a moral responsibility to do what we can"

• It was "premature" to say the UK was going to send troops to Sudan - but "we are ruling nothing out". "I am in daily contact with people in this," he said

• "We have got to move in concert with people but the critical thing is to try at least at this stage to make the current strategy work," Mr Blair said

• The government has taken tough action on asylum, withdrawing benefits and targeting countries from which a lot of asylum seekers are coming

• "Everyone wants us to deal with asylum but nobody wants an asylum centre near them," Mr Blair said in response to a question about the planned asylum centre at Bicester in Oxfordshire

• There is still a lot to do to make the peace process work

• He said time had been set aside in September to address the impasse in the process and that his commitment remained absolute

• "Unless we truly make progress in September we are in difficulty"

• Mr Blair said he was very conscious of the issue of over-stretch in the armed forces

• The changes to the armed forces was about making them better for "today's world"

• "It is unlikely the armed forces would be called upon to do what they would have been called to do 60 years ago i.e. defend the country," he said

• No date has been set for a referendum on the EU constitution but campaigning for a yes vote began the day the intention to hold one was announced, he said

• The treaty was a victory for Britain in that it protects foreign policy and defence and "all the things we want to keep", Mr Blair said

CIA

• The prime minister praised America's CIA arguing it had done everything it could to prevent the 11 September atrocities.

• He said: "If anything could have been done, I am sure it would have been done."

• He contrasted those who claimed the US did not act strongly enough on the intelligence available, to those who say the intelligence did not justify the war with Iraq