The House Has Noticed The Prime Minister's

I Have Managed To Infuriate The Bank Bosses; Acquire A Fatwa From The Revolutionary Guards Of The Trades Union Movement; Frighten The 'daily Telegraph' With A Progressive Graduate Payment; And Upset Very Rich People Who Are Trying To Dodge British Taxes. I Must Be Doing Something Right.

The Robert Mugabe School Of Economics Provides A Salutary Warning About Uncontrolled Monetary Expansion In Generating Hyper-inflation. The Road To Harare Is Not As Long As We Might Hope.

I Made Friends With A Boy Who Was A Communist When I Was 13 And That Broadened My Political Views, But It Also Brought Me Into Conflict With My Father Who Was Very Right-wing.

My College, Fitzwilliam, Was Pretty Good But Unfashionable And I Lived In Digs So I Was Not Part Of The Cloistered 'old College' Environment, Which Frankly Was A Bit Intimidating. But I Worked Hard And Settled In By Exploring Politics And Girls.

There Was, Of Course, A Global Financial Crisis. But Our Labour Predecessors Left Britain Exceptionally Vulnerable And Damaged: More Personal Debt Than Any Other Major Economy; A Dangerously Inflated Property Bubble; And A Bloated Banking Sector Behaving As Masters, Not The Servants Of The People.