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.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

I think Britain needs to get out there on the world stage and make itself heard. And for much of my political career, there has been a sense of retreat from the world stage because of what happened in the Iraq War.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.