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.

Just as it wouldn't be right to only to have an economic dialogue with China, equally you shouldn't restrict your dialogue solely to issues around, say, human rights. You can raise all those issues, and that is what reflects a mature discussion. So I don't think essentially we have to choose between being partners in China's economic development and being proud defenders of British values.

You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

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.

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.

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