The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

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.

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.

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe.

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

I didn't mislead people. I know I didn't lie and I have got to establish that.