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

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.

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

I believe in public services.

We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.