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Well, As I Said, You Know The Issue Of Greek Debt, They've Grasped The Principle Of Debt Reduction. I Think Most People Would Argue That Probably More Needs To Be Done On That Front, And They've Just Begun To Take The First Steps To Accepting That There's Going To Have To Be Much Closer Economic Integration In Europe.

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.

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.

So I Went Into Government With A Clear Mind About What The Problems Were, And What Needed To Be Done.

I Know It Sounds Trite But I Wanted To Make A Difference. Political Debates With My Father Had Been Fraught Because He Was Uncompromising And Explosive But If He Taught Me One Thing It Was To Air My Views.