In Britain, we have an open door to half a billion people. We still retain the ability to decide who comes from the rest of the world. But we've effectively shut down the rest of the world because 4,000 people a week are coming from the E.U.

America has borders. You have quite strict borders, actually. Even getting a work permit in New York actually is quite a difficult thing to do. I've got to prove I've got an address. I've got to prove I have private health care. And when my work permit runs out, if I haven't left, there'll be a knock at the door, they'll put me in handcuffs and take me to JFK Airport. That's how you guys do it.

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.

Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?

Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.