Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.

At the core of the European Union must be, as it is now, the single market. Britain is at the heart of that Single Market, and must remain so.

If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

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

People feel that the EU is heading in a direction that they never signed up to. They resent the interference in our national life by what they see as unnecessary rules and regulation. And they wonder what the point of it all is. Put simply, many ask 'why can't we just have what we voted to join - a common market?'