I like democracy. I like to be able to throw out my political leaders when they get things wrong, and we don't get to do that with Brussels.

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.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.