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.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

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

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.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

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.