Billions Of Taxpayers' Money Has Been Wasted

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.

When I Was A Child We Were Sufficiently Well Off For Me To Be A Picky Eater And I Still Cannot Eat Vegetables Cooked In The Traditional British Manner.

On Banks, I Make No Apology For Attacking Spivs And Gamblers Who Did More Harm To The British Economy Than Bob Crow Could Achieve In His Wildest Trotskyite Fantasies, While Paying Themselves Outrageous Bonuses Underwritten By The Taxpayer. There Is Much Public Anger About Banks And It Is Well Deserved.

The House Has Noticed The Prime Minister's Remarkable Transformation In The Past Few Weeks, From Stalin To Mr. Bean.

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.