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

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

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

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.

There are a lot of examples where people aren't getting the right information. We could do a lot more with credit card bills so people properly understand that if you pay off the minimum it could take you 41 years to pay off is that right.