The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

I would also like to see children aged between 11 and 18 taught financial education in a structured way in schools. I would also say that that is not enough. You have also got to improve numeracy skills, mathematical skills in schools.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.