Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

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

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.

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

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.