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

Elected presidents are for countries.

I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

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

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.