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I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.

I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.

Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

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.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.