There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".

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

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

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

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.

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'