The gap is significant. This has been sobering for all the ministers.

I'm a fighter, not a quitter.

Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.

It is not as it has been painted - with me being pro-nuclear and Margaret being anti-nuclear. We both have the same concerns as expressed in the energy white paper, and we both have the same appreciation that nuclear has to be part of the debate.

negotiation and agreement, and not confrontation.

We need to make progress in other areas. We need to address the whole of the agenda if we are to make the progress we want to do,