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

It does make a broader point which is the fight against Islamist terror is not just one that we can wage by the police and border control. It needs every school, every university, every college, every community to recognize they have a role to play, we all have a role to play in stopping people from having their minds poisoned by this appalling death cult.

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

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

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.