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.

No treaty should be ratified without consulting the British people in a referendum.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

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.

There are some people who seem to think that the way you reduce the cost of living in this country is for the state to spend more and more taxpayers' money. It is as if somehow you measure the compassion of the government by the amount of other people's money it can spend.

It's not just other countries in Europe having a say over what we do. It's unelected bureaucrats in Brussels on sort of six-figure, huge salaries telling us how we run our country despite having never stood for an election themselves.

Countries are different. They make different choices. We cannot harmonise everything.