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

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

We are pretty tough in saying for example if you've got unsecured debts and less than £25,000 that should not be an excuse for repossessing someone's home.That should not be allowed.You have got to help manage people through this process. I don't want to pretend that it is going to be easy getting out of Gordon Brown's hole.

Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.