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Billions Of Taxpayers' Money Has Been Wasted In Bad Deals. The London Underground Modernisation, Personally Negotiated By One Of Gordon Brown's Team, Was A Disaster, As The National Audit Office Has Confirmed.

I Know It Sounds Trite But I Wanted To Make A Difference. Political Debates With My Father Had Been Fraught Because He Was Uncompromising And Explosive But If He Taught Me One Thing It Was To Air My Views.

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.

The Degree Of Leverage Now Being Reversed Is On A Staggering Scale, And The Underlying Global Imbalances – Notably Between The Savers And The Spenders – Will Require Long And Painful Adjustment.

I Made Friends With A Boy Who Was A Communist When I Was 13 And That Broadened My Political Views, But It Also Brought Me Into Conflict With My Father Who Was Very Right-wing.