I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

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

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.

Britain is not part of the single currency. That is a decision we have taken, a voluntary decision of this country, but as a result are part of a European Union 19 of whose members are rapidly integrating, creating political, fiscal, monetary, economic union to make their currency work. And that is increasingly rubbing up against the operation.

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