Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

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

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

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.

We should be looking at putting a limit on the interest that can be charged on things like store cards.You don't want to end up with totally draconian credit controls but you want some common sense. We want cooling-off periods for store cards so people can't take them out and go straight to the counter and buy things.

We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.