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

Egypt is a sovereign nation.

Labour have been listening for too long to the so-called experts who think that competition is a dirty word and that communicating facts to our children is elitist.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

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

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

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.