“I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.”
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Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.