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The Government Increasingly Resembles Somebody Who Is Trying To Give The Kiss Of Life To A Corpse.

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.

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.

Billions Of Taxpayers' Money Has Been Wasted In Bad Deals. The London Underground Modernisation, Personally Negotiated By One Of Gordon Brown's Team, Was A Disaster, As The National Audit Office Has Confirmed.

On Banks, I Make No Apology For Attacking Spivs And Gamblers Who Did More Harm To The British Economy Than Bob Crow Could Achieve In His Wildest Trotskyite Fantasies, While Paying Themselves Outrageous Bonuses Underwritten By The Taxpayer. There Is Much Public Anger About Banks And It Is Well Deserved.