It’s probably the most unpopular policy I’m responsible for. I know it is very unpopular, culling badgers. But I believe it is the right thing to do. You have to make choices as a politician. Sometimes it means doing something you know people don’t like.

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.