I Am A Bit Of A Lefty

I Clearly Believe A Lot More Than Some Of My Coalition Colleagues - Tories - In Redistribution And Using The Tax System For That Purpose. I Also Believe In The Government Having An Active Role In The Economy, Which Is Having An Industrial Strategy. I'm Not A Believer In Laissez-faire.

I Am A Bit Of A Lefty On Some Issues.

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.

According To The Papers, I'm Miserable, Alienated, And On The Brink Of Resignation. But That's Simply Not Where I Am.

My Job Is To Support Businesses, That Means Promoting British Commerce In The Big Emerging Markets That Have Been Neglected In The Past. It Means Keeping Britain Open To Inward Investors, Trade And Skilled Workers. It Means Cutting Red Tape Which Is Suffocating Growing Companies Which Create Jobs.