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.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

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

On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have.

Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'