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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 Food In The House Of Commons Is Fairly Good. The Cafe In Portcullis House Is Really Very High Quality, And You Also Have A Choice Of Eating In The More Traditional Restaurants, The Churchill Room Or The Members' Dining Room. I Don't Often Eat In Them, Though, As I'm Usually On The Run.

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.

We Have Sectors Of The Economy, Aerospace Is A Good Example, Where Britain's Probably The Second Country In The World, The Automobile Sector, Where We've Done Extraordinarily Well, An Enormous Amount Of Investment Over The Last Couple Of Years, Life Sciences Is Another.

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.