Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope, and therefore what might be described as "solidarity".

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

Strengthening our identity is one way or reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

I believe Britishness is defined not on ethnic and exclusive grounds but through shared values, our history of tolerance, openness and internationalism and our commitment to democracy and liberty, to civic duty and the public space.

I said it's impossible to have an amnesty without ID cards and a clean database, because you firstly don't have any incentives for people to actually come up front and register, and make themselves available, and secondly you have no means of tracking them.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

I have always been honest about my recollection of events.