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

I mean UKIP, I mean it's just a sort of, you know, bunch of fruitcakes and loonies and closet racists, basically.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

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

I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not trying to create the perfect democracy. We're never going to create some ideal society. We are simply there for our own national security.

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