Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

I've always said, not giving too much away, I'm a believer in having all your stars on the pitch.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.