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

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.

There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.