Hamish Falconer: “Yes, there are some really important technical questions that we have got to get right.”

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.

I would want a deeper relationship, a more ambitious relationship with the EU.

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.