The appalling crackdown that we witnessed in Hama and other Syrian cities on 30 and 31 July only erode the regime's legitimacy and increase resentment. In the absence of an end to the senseless violence and a genuine process of political reform, we will continue to pursue further EU sanctions.

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself - no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

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.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.