2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

Warm congratulations to my friend Barack Obama. Look forward to continuing to work together.

We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation. To represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world. To advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets. And to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.

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.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.