I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

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.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.