If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few.

In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger? Can we carry on with an organisation that has a multibillion pound budget but not enough focus on controlling spending and shutting down programmes that haven't worked?

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

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.