We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

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

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.

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

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