Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.

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.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

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

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.