Easter is all about remembering the importance of change, responsibility, and doing the right thing for the good of our children.

There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

We are a great country, and whatever choice we make we will still be great. But I believe the choice is between being an even greater Britain inside a reformed EU or a great leap into the unknown.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

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.

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