For the terrorism we are fighting in Britain, wasn’t born in Britain, though on 7th July last year it was British born terrorists that killed people. The solution lies in schools and training camps and indoctrination thousands of miles away, as well as in the towns and cities of modern Britain. The solution to mass migration lies at its source, not in the nations feeling its consequence.

But common action will not be agreed unless it is founded on common values — of liberty, democracy, tolerance, justice. These are the values universally accepted across all nations, faiths and races, though not by all people within them. These are values that can inspire and unify. We need an international community that both embodies and acts in pursuit of these global values.

The scale of the agenda in front of us is enormous. And, increasingly, there is a hopeless mismatch between the global challenges we face and the global institutions to confront them. After the Second World War, people realised that there needed to be a new international institutional architecture. In this new era, in the early 21st century, we need to renew it.

In A speech in the United States on Friday, I made some tentative suggestions for change. First, the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has done an extraordinary job in often near impossible circumstances and deserves backing for his reform programme. But a Security Council which has France as a permanent member but not Germany, Britain but not Japan, China but not India to say nothing of the absence of any representation from Latin America or Africa, cannot be legitimate in the modern world. If necessary let us agree some form of interim change that can be a bridge to a future settlement.

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