According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am..

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 manne….

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treache….

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 beli….

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegrap….

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those w….

My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find ch….

Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as bank….

The House has noticed the Prime Minister's remarkable transformation in the past few weeks, from Stalin to Mr. Bean..

The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse..

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-grow….

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want….

The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years..

The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European.….

These 'masters of the universe' must be tamed in the interests of the ordinary families whose jobs and livelihoods are being put at risk. The Tories ….

I don't feel comfortable with luxury, and I try to stay fairly normal..

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's lega….

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Ha….

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 th….

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 tha….

My job is to support businesses, that means promoting British commerce in the big emerging markets that have been neglected in the past. It means kee….