We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

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.

I get a lot of letters from people.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.

What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.