At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

We must consider teaching the Egyptian revolution in schools.

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