I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.

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

You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.

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

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

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.