They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict.

I do not share the half-in, half-out attitude to the EU of some in Britain. Britain's place is in Europe.

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.