The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

More of the same will just produce more of the same - less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?