I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.