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.

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.

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

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

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.

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.