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.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

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

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

Whatever new arrangements are enacted for the Eurozone, they must work fairly for those inside it and out.