“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.”

“When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.”

“If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.”

“I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.”

“It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines.”

“It's amazing how ideas start out, isn't it?”

“The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.”

“It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.”