Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.

Nobody in Britain has voted for 4 million people to come here in the last 15 years, and for probably another 3 million to come between now and 2020.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.

I have invested the best part of my adult political life in helping to try to build up this movement and I am far from perfect but I do think I am able, through the media, to deliver a good, simple, understandable message.