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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.

Much Of The Shadow Banking Sector, A Major Contributor To The Economic Crisis, Was Also Only Possible Because Of Taxhaven Secrecy.

Where There Is Flagrant Abuse Of Corporate Entities We Must And Will Seek To Tackle It.

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.

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.