In My Job I Meet Many Outstanding,

You Can't Win With Some People. If You're Not In Government, You're Criticised For Being Not Serious. If You Are In Government, You're Criticised For Wanting Power. That's The Labour Party's Line Of Attack, And It's A Bit Ridiculous.

Billions Of Taxpayers' Money Has Been Wasted In Bad Deals. The London Underground Modernisation, Personally Negotiated By One Of Gordon Brown's Team, Was A Disaster, As The National Audit Office Has Confirmed.

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.

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 Their Trousers Tied Round Their Middle: Steady Lending Growth; Particularly To Productive British Business, Especially Small Scale Enterprise.

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.