Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

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.

It was inevitable the Titanic was going to set sail, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea to be on it.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

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