My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.

What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.