The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

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

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.