If we ca n’t get the commitments we need from our European partners on things like Britain being outside the commitment to ever-closer union, if we ca n’t get these things then as the prime minister has said, we rule nothing out, that’s why the package will have to be a robust, substantial and irreversible package of change with proper binding legal force. Because if we try to put to the British people a package which is anything less, we will get a raspberry from them.

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It's an essential part of the settlement in Hong Kong that it has its own judicial system and it is solely responsible for trying offences that occur in Hong Kong.

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We do not believe that it is going to be possible to bring the opposition groups into the political process and have an effective ceasefire unless we have a clear point at which President Assad will depart.

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If this turns out to be a device planted by an ISIL operative or by somebody inspired by ISIL, then clearly we will have to look again at the level of security we expect to see in airports in areas where ISIL is active.

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We hope by tomorrow (Friday) we will have in place short-term emergency measures that will provide us with the level of assurance we need to allow flights to go out from the UK empty and bring those people back to the UK.

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There is very clear pitch here not to wait until then, there are things that can't be done. Investments can't be made, items can't be imported or exported or whatever. But the business negotiation can start to take place well ahead of that.

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The thing we disagree on is the role of one single person, Bashar al-Assad, in this process, the Iranians take the view that for better or for worse without Assad there can not be a political process – he is the glue that holds much of Syria together.

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This embassy and this special compound is a very special place: Since Britain acquired it in 1869, it has witnessed great moments both in the history of Iran and of Britain.

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Reopening the embassy is the logical next move - a key step in building confidence and trust between two great nations.

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That is not a sustainable situation because Europe can't protect itself and preserve its standard of living and social infrastructure, if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa.

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So long as there are large numbers of pretty desperate migrants marauding around the area there will always be a threat to the tunnel's security.

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We have got to be able to resolve this problem ultimately by being able to return those who are not entitled to claim asylum back to their countries of origin, that's our number one priority.

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We will be back here tomorrow night and we are looking forward to making some solid progress on Thursday when we reconvene.

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The work goes on. You are going to see ministers coming and going to maintain the momentum of these discussions. I don't think we're at any kind of breakthrough moment yet and we will do whatever we need to do to keep the momentum.

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There is going to have to be some give or take if we are to get this done in the next few days, no deal is better than a bad deal.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
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There a number of different areas where we still have major differences of interpretation in detailing what was agreed in (the) Lausanne (framework agreement).

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There will need to be some more flexibility shown by our Iranian partners if we are going to reach a deal, but, look, this is a negotiation, we always expected it would go right to the line and maybe beyond the line, so I think the serious negotiations are now getting under way and over the next week or so I hope we will start to see some real progress.

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As to the specific allegations this morning, we never comment on operational intelligence matters so I'm not going to talk about what we have or haven't done in order to mitigate the effect of the Edward Snowden revelations, but nobody should be in any doubt that Edward Snowden has caused immense damage.

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We would offer our support to any country that has been chosen to host the World Cup.

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We've asked the president, when he's ready, to let us have a shopping list of the support that he wants.

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What matters is getting it right rather than doing it quickly, we're certainly not going to trade substantive reform just for getting it done quickly.

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