If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.

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

From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We have helped to write European history, and Europe has helped write ours.

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

I am not a British isolationist. I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".