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

Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking police, of people even attacking firefighters. This is criminality pure and simple and it has to be confronted.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

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.

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

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.