Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act and act now.

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

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.

At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

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

All those countries who keep their aid promises should be proud of what they've done