It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

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.

The last thing I'd say is that you can achieve a lot of things in politics. You can get a lot of things done. And that, in the end - the public service, the national interest: that is what it's all about. Nothing is really impossible if you put your mind to it. After all, as I once said: I was the future once.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

Since 2004, Britain has been the destination for 1 in 5 of all inward investments into Europe. And being part of the Single Market has been key to that success.