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

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

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.

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

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.

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