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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.

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.

Quite Apart From The Problem Of The Vote, It's Bad For The Image Of Parliament That People Take The Trouble To Come Up And Are Not Allowed To See Their Mp.

No, And In Fact I Get A Bit Frustrated, Because I'm Actually Quite Good At One-liners, And I've Had Hundreds Of Them Over The Years, And They Sink Without Trace, And I Get Very Frustrated. Every Party Conference I Really Work On The Speeches, And I Always Have Two Or Three Things I'm Quite Proud Of, And No One Ever Remembers Them.

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.