When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.