One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Wouldn't it be better to have a watertight law designed to catch the guilty, rather than a press release law designed to catch the headlines?

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union Act 2011, by law that cannot happen without a referendum. And we are just as right that the EU has more power in our national life than it should, and I believe as strongly as I ever have that when the right moment comes this party should set out to reduce it.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.