Billions Of Taxpayers' Money Has Been Wasted

Regulators Are A Backstop: They Don't Own Banks. The Governance At The Top Of Our Leading Banks Has Been Shown To Be Lamentably Weak. No One At The Top Of Barclays Will Take Responsibility For Systemic Abuse.

The Tories Are Now The Party Of Rural Areas And Labour Essentially Is In The Big Cities

I Don't Feel Comfortable With Luxury, And I Try To Stay Fairly Normal.

I Think What Is Happening Is I Think First Of All There Is Confidence In The U.k. Economy. We're In A German Rather Than A Greek Position In International Financial Markets, Which Is Very Positive And Keeps Our Debt Service Costs Down, And We're Also Beginning To See Real Evidence Of Rebalancing.

The Economy Has Become Seriously Unbalanced. Its Growth Has Not Been Driven By Investment Or By Overcoming Britain's Long-standing Weaknesses In Investment And Productivity, Particularly Skills. Instead, There Has Been A Binge Of Debt-financed Consumer Spending.