Taxes Shouldn't Be Higher; They

Small- And Medium-sized Businesses Need Access To A Diverse Range Of Finance Options, Including Non-bank Lending. These New Forms Of Finance Are Still Small In Scale Today But They Should, Over Time, Bring Additional Choice And Greater Competition To The Lending Market.

The Two Policies That Ken Clarke Is Most Famous For Are His Opposition To The Iraq War And Being A Very Defensible And Quite Courageous Pro-european. These Are Both Policies He Shares With Us.

Our Workforce Is Very Co-operative, Very Flexible, Easy To Work With And One Of The Big Selling Points. The Idea That Britain Is Still Back In The Labour Market Of The '70s Is Utterly Bizarre.

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.

I Fear That The Rising Personal Bankruptcies And Repossessions Are The First Signs Of Bigger Problems To Come And Personal Debt - Gordon Brown's Legacy To Millions Of Britain's Families - Will Hang Like A Millstone Around The Neck Of The British People For Years To Come.