No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

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.

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

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.

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.

I believe in public services.

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