I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

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

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

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.

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.

Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.