Over the longer term, the institutions and powers of the EU will continue to expand and certain policymaking powers, heretofore vested in the member states, will be delegated or transferred to, or pooled and shared with EU institutions. As a result, the sovereignty of the member states will increasingly be eroded.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

It's time we admitted that there's more to life than money, and it's time we focused not just on GDP, but on GWB - general well-being.

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through enforced austerity or their taxes are used to bail out governments on the other side of the continent.

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.