I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

I've got people handling the media. I employ at the moment two people. No-one is paying income tax on the money they use to employ people.

Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.

The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

I think I have gone through my entire public career never telling a lie. I have made mistakes but I never knowingly lied.

I never came into life with any favours or privileges.

I have no interest in managing my financial affairs.