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The Government Increasingly Resembles Somebody Who Is Trying To Give The Kiss Of Life To A Corpse.

Banks Operate Like A Man Who Either Wears His Trousers Round His Chest, Stifling Breathing, As Now, Or Round His Ankles, Exposing His Assets. We Want Their Trousers Tied Round Their Middle: Steady Lending Growth; Particularly To Productive British Business, Especially Small Scale Enterprise.

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.

In My Job I Meet Many Outstanding, World Class, British Based Companies. But We Need More Companies And More Jobs In The Companies We Have.

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.