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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.

My Time At Shell Was A Most Valuable Experience Because It Taught Me To Look At The World In A Long-term Way. Shell Takes A 20-year View On Events And Plans For Different Scenarios. It Makes You See The World As A Kind Of Large Matrix.

For Wide Swaths Of Training And Education There Are Valuable Spillovers Which Mean That The Private Sector Needs Support From The Government. That Is Why I Have Been So Determined To Protect And Grow Apprenticeships And Put Higher Education On A Sustainable Footing.

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.

Our Workforce Is Very Co-operative, Very Flexible, Easy To Work With And One Of The Big Selling Points. The Idea That Britain Is Still Back In The Labour Market Of The '70s Is Utterly Bizarre.