This was the decisive move that business wanted to give our economy a much-needed shot in the arm.

I want to take them down a dark alley.

I have been more constructively critical of this Government than my predecessors.

During this campaign the chancellor and the prime minister will stand up and say it [the government] hasn't increased taxes, and that's just not true for business.

At the end of the day I don't give in to ultimatums.

The real answer is to allow access to the EU for goods produced in China and for EU producers to adapt to the challenge.

I'm not prepared to accept that. I don't give in to ultimatums.

Ideologies of Old Europe have condemned hundreds of millions of people to the economic slow track while the United States has accelerated into the distance, with India and China coming up on the rails.