In My Job I Meet

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 Keeping Britain Open To Inward Investors, Trade And Skilled Workers. It Means Cutting Red Tape Which Is Suffocating Growing Companies Which Create Jobs.

I Made Friends With A Boy Who Was A Communist When I Was 13 And That Broadened My Political Views, But It Also Brought Me Into Conflict With My Father Who Was Very Right-wing.

The Robert Mugabe School Of Economics Provides A Salutary Warning About Uncontrolled Monetary Expansion In Generating Hyper-inflation. The Road To Harare Is Not As Long As We Might Hope.

There Was, Of Course, A Global Financial Crisis. But Our Labour Predecessors Left Britain Exceptionally Vulnerable And Damaged: More Personal Debt Than Any Other Major Economy; A Dangerously Inflated Property Bubble; And A Bloated Banking Sector Behaving As Masters, Not The Servants Of The People.

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 Manner.