And Humility In Politics Means Accepting That

On Banks, I Make No Apology For Attacking Spivs And Gamblers Who Did More Harm To The British Economy Than Bob Crow Could Achieve In His Wildest Trotskyite Fantasies, While Paying Themselves Outrageous Bonuses Underwritten By The Taxpayer. There Is Much Public Anger About Banks And It Is Well Deserved.

Many Of Our Problems Are Home-grown. Gordon Brown Regularly Advised The Rest Of The World To Follow His British Model Of Growth. But The Model Was Flawed. It Led To The Highest Level Of Household Debt In Relation To Income In The World.

Banks Operate Like A Man Who Either Wears His Trousers Round His Chest, Stifling Breathing, As Now, Or Round His Ankles, Exposing His Assets. We Want Their Trousers Tied Round Their Middle: Steady Lending Growth; Particularly To Productive British Business, Especially Small Scale Enterprise.

We Need A New British Business Bank With A Clean Balance Sheet And An Ability To Expand Lending Rapidly To The Manufacturers, Exporters And High-growth Companies That Power Our Economy. Today I Can Announce We Will Have One.

My Late Wife Olympia Was Goan And I've Been To India Many Times. I Love The Food There. We Used To Do Our Shopping In Southall, Where You Can Find Cheap But Wonderful Fruit Like Mangoes, Vegetables And Spices. I Didn't Do Much Of The Cooking, As Olympia Did A Lot - I Was The Under-chef And Did Some Of The Chopping.