Taxes Shouldn't Be Higher; They Should Be

I've Always Been Comfortable Working With Women And I've Had Two Happy Marriages. Draw What Conclusions You Like From That.

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.

I'm Now Happily Remarried To A Good Cook, Which Encourages Me To Be Lazy. I Like To Think That I'm A New Man, But Perhaps I'm Not. I Offset It By Doing The Ironing, Though. She Has A Small Farm In The New Forest With A Herd Of Cattle, So She Serves Up A Steak And Kidney Pie Made With Her Own Beef.

The Economy Has Become Seriously Unbalanced. Its Growth Has Not Been Driven By Investment Or By Overcoming Britain's Long-standing Weaknesses In Investment And Productivity, Particularly Skills. Instead, There Has Been A Binge Of Debt-financed Consumer Spending.

We Need A New British Business Bank With A Clean Balance Sheet And An Ability To Expand Lending Rapidly To The Manufacturers, Exporters And High-growth Companies That Power Our Economy. Today I Can Announce We Will Have One.