Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.

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.

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

The EU is not a country and it's not going to become a country, in my view, now or ever in the future. It is a group of countries working together.