You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

I want completing the single market to be our driving mission. I want us to be at the forefront of transformative trade deals with the US, Japan and India as part of the drive towards global free trade. And I want us to be pushing to exempt Europe's smallest entrepreneurial companies from more EU directives.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

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.

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

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.

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