Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

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.

I get a lot of letters from people.