We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

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

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

Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

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.

We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.