What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

There is no point in saving the currency if we lose the country that goes with it.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.