Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.

Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society