I get a lot of letters from people.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.

I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.

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.

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