In tough times, everyone has to take their share of the pain.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought...

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.