I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.