The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc. We must not be weighed down by an insistence on a one size fits all approach which implies that all countries want the same level of integration. The fact is that they don't and we shouldn't assert that they do.

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.

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

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

The economies in Europe that will prosper, are those that are the greenest and the most energy efficient

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.