Egypt is a sovereign nation.

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.

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