Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

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

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

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

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

Press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law. While it's vital that a free press can tell truth to power, it is equally important that those in power can tell truth to the press.