Of course, the EU is not going to fall apart, but at best it will stagnate for the foreseeable future and we will be dealing with quite a lot of internal chaos.

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

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.