I've Always Been Comfortable Working

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.

Small- And Medium-sized Businesses Need Access To A Diverse Range Of Finance Options, Including Non-bank Lending. These New Forms Of Finance Are Still Small In Scale Today But They Should, Over Time, Bring Additional Choice And Greater Competition To The Lending Market.

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.

I Am Going To Confront The Old-fashioned Negative Thinking Which Says That All Government Needs To Do To Generate Growth Is Cut Worker And Environmental Protections, Cut Taxes On The Rich And Stroke 'fat Cats' Until They Purr With Pleasure. I'm Completely Repudiating The Idea That Government Has To Get Out Of The Way.

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.