According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal.

The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories won't say anything about the current crisis as they are completely in the pockets of the hedge funds.

Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.