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

You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Well, if you're looking for me to lead a normal representative life, well good luck finding a foreign secretary who'd be like that - totally dependant on the political system and has never earned any money. Then you'll get the politicians you deserve.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

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

I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies - and agencies and their offices in Brussels.