Tony Blair has just returned to Downing Street from seeing the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Speaking to the cameras, he says he has listened to and learned from people during the campaign, and has a "clear idea what people want". "I, we, the government will focus relentlessly on the priorities people have set us," he adds.
This list includes keeping mortgages low, helping people with their work-life balance, helping people on low incomes, stimulating enterprise and in investing in public services such as health and education. He adds that he has found that people are particularly concerned with growing "disrespect" in schools and the wider community. "I want to focus on this issue."
Turning to foreign affairs, he says: "I know that Iraq has been a deeply divisive issue ... I also know and believe that after this election people want to move on." He concludes by promising that the government will continue to work to reduce poverty in Africa, tackle climate change and aid progress in the Middle East peace process.
