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

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

Now I know which came first - the chicken not the egg.

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

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.