What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.