Hamish Falconer: “I would want a deeper relationship, a more ambitious relationship with the EU.”

I am disappointed by the uncertainty today about the A46 Newark bypass-widening scheme. I support further funding for the Dip, but the A46 upgrade programme is well advanced, long awaited, excellent value for money and of strategic…

But we also need to put this in the big picture … there is also a massive wider European agenda, which is really important to us, and Britain is really important to that agenda too.

We’re committed to our manifesto red lines, but all of my experiences as a negotiator and the art of the possible is in part shaped by the nature of the relationship between two people negotiating.

I think the Spanish government have been pretty clear that they think that the increasing ferocity of the wildfires that they face are a result of man-made climate change, and we do need to take those warnings very seriously indeed.