I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House.

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

For those of us on that Leave side there is a natural credibility with those voters.

We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.

I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.

We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.

Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism.