Strong views exist on both sides but I believe MPs voting for gay people being able to marry too, is a step forward for our country.

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.

Nelson Mandela was a towering figure in our time; a legend in life and now in death - a true global hero.

An EU without Britain, without 1 of Europe's strongest powers, a country which in many ways invented the single market, and which brings real heft to Europe's influence on the world stage which plays by the rules and which is a force for liberal economic reform would be a very different kind of European Union.

I am just not a great fan of the Piers Morgan format. I would rather do something a bit more substantial.

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

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.