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.

When you reduce taxes on higher earners it's vital to be reducing them on lower earning people as well so the nation shares in the approach.

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

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

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

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.

Gordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise.