A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.

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.

I believe in public services.

We are pretty tough in saying for example if you've got unsecured debts and less than £25,000 that should not be an excuse for repossessing someone's home.That should not be allowed.You have got to help manage people through this process. I don't want to pretend that it is going to be easy getting out of Gordon Brown's hole.