You do have to do business with and to try to influence people you don't agree with, or find disagreeable, so it's important to stress that balance.

The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business.

I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.

Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.

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.

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.