It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.

Those who back the Syrian regime from now on will find themselves in an even more isolated and indefensible minority.

Not all politicians are bonkers, but most of them are.

I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided at that level.