My entire political career has been based on building up Britain's political standing and economic prosperity through our membership of the E.U. and the European project.

Access to justice is a fundamental part of a properly functioning democracy.

I am a firm believer in open justice, and an opponent of closed justice in any normal circumstances. But I am also an opponent of legal purism, and have no time for institutionalised mythmaking - whether from the authoritarian right or the liberal left.

It would be immoral to walk away from the consequences of our actions, leaving behind anarchy and civil war in Iraq.