I think when people have pudding and jobs, they vote for you.

If I was British, I would vote resolutely 'remain' because it's in the U.K.'s interest.

I am attached to a strict approach to Brexit: I respect the British vote, but the worst thing would be a sort of weak E.U. vis-a-vis the British.

My key message is be innovative, be ambitious; think global and big on day one.

It's about our ability precisely to integrate a people and offer jobs, and that, for me, is one of the key rationales of the reforms I'm pushing, and I'm a strong believer in that when you lift barriers, when you deregulate a lot of stuff, basically you improve the equality of opportunities.

To think that our political organisation is immutable is the best way to hand the country over to the extremes.