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.

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

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.

I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.