We Need A New British Business Bank

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.

When I Was A Child We Were Sufficiently Well Off For Me To Be A Picky Eater And I Still Cannot Eat Vegetables Cooked In The Traditional British Manner.

Housing Associations Have Fingered The Fact That They Cannot Use Their Assets As Liquidity Due To Bank Of England Rules Unlike Their Continental Equivalents. This Has Emerged To Be One Of The Main Bottlenecks To Getting Investment Going In The U.k. It Is A Bank Of England Issue.

The House Has Noticed The Prime Minister's Remarkable Transformation In The Past Few Weeks, From Stalin To Mr. Bean.

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.