The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can always look to the United States as an ally resolved to stand firm in the war on terrorism.
There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.
I believe the United Kingdom will be worse off outside the E.U. It will not have the influence it has in the world today.
I hope there will be continued U.K. investment in human spaceflight to enable Britain to benefit from space travel in the longer term and that many more Britons - women and men - will travel into space.
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
I am confident that the British people will not be intimidated by terrorism.
I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.
Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened.
The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.