People apply for a job, are asked to work for three or four weeks on probation and are then told to go and are replaced by colleagues. There are shops even in the West End [of London] using large numbers of totally unpaid staff on a permanent basis.

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

Sorry, but we live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.