Britain has made clear repeatedly to Chinese leaders that it would be wrong and damaging to scrap this council and replace it,

He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,

No one has tasted them. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional Chinese noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

It's rather a strange sport in that we spend a great deal of money to do this for a scrap of ribbon.

What we are discussing is what we have to do, the very clear undertakings given by the European Council at a summit last December and again this June, to lead to an opening of negotiations on October 3rd. I will say that I am reasonably hopeful that this deadline can be met.