The Two Policies That Ken Clarke Is

I Clearly Believe A Lot More Than Some Of My Coalition Colleagues - Tories - In Redistribution And Using The Tax System For That Purpose. I Also Believe In The Government Having An Active Role In The Economy, Which Is Having An Industrial Strategy. I'm Not A Believer In Laissez-faire.

If The Pendulum Swings, It May Swing To A Combination Of Conservatives And Liberal Democrats And, Thus, To A Period Of Minority Government Or Coalition, In Some Form.

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.

Fundamental Renegotiation Is Very, Very Unlikely To Produce Any Significant Change

Britain Is No Longer One Of The World's Price Setters. It Is Painful. It Is A Challenge To Us In Government To Explain All That, And It Is A Pity That The Political Class Is Not Preparing The Public For It To Understand How Massive The Problem Is.