Before, Europe was about treaties, laws and our sovereign right to govern ourselves. Now, it's about everyday lives.

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.

The situation in Greece just goes from bad to worse. We’ve now got a situation where there was the big suicide a few weeks ago, where a 77-year-old man shot himself in the head outside the Greek Parliament. That was the public face of what’s gone wrong.

I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.