Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses again.

When you’re taking the country through difficult times and difficult decisions you’ve got to take the country with you. That means permanently trying to make the argument that what you’re doing is fair and seen to be fair.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

I want the European Union to be a success. And I want a relationship between Britain and the EU that keeps us in it.

The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.