Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

I care more about getting this right [NHS reform] than I do about getting it done.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

One of the best ways to make growth personal is to give employees a share in their firm, a real incentive to go the extra mile, more of a 'John Lewis Economy' if you like...We know that firms where employees are engaged and own a stake do at least as well as other companies in the good times and have performed even better in recent bad times. Expanding and recruiting at a much faster rate and achieving better productivity...So, why do they make up just 2% of our business landscape?