I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.