When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister – no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

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

People feel that in too many ways the EU is something that is done to them, not something over which they have a say.

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

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.