If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything. For example, it is neither right nor necessary to claim that the integrity of the single market, or full membership of the European Union requires the working hours of British hospital doctors to be set in Brussels irrespective of the views of British parliamentarians and practitioners.

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.

When you’re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you’ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you’re doing is fair and seen to be fair.

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

The legacy of Mandela is to have brought the country together... South Africa can be one of the success stories of the 21st century.