When My Job Was Attempting To Predict

Britain Is No Longer One Of The World's Price Setters. It Is Painful. It Is A Challenge To Us In Government To Explain All That, And It Is A Pity That The Political Class Is Not Preparing The Public For It To Understand How Massive The Problem Is.

The Robert Mugabe School Of Economics Provides A Salutary Warning About Uncontrolled Monetary Expansion In Generating Hyper-inflation. The Road To Harare Is Not As Long As We Might Hope.

And Humility In Politics Means Accepting That One Party Doesn't Have All The Answers; Recognising That Working In Partnership Is Progress Not Treachery.

I Am A Bit Of A Lefty On Some Issues.

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.