This Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens further still the democratic deficit.

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

There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

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

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Ukip policies are common-sense policies.

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