Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

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.

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.

We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.

Today the main, over-riding purpose of the European Union is different: not to win peace, but to secure prosperity.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.