Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

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.

Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don’t think that’s right.

I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

NCS - National Citizen Service is a fantastic programme. I want it to be available for every young person in the country.