Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
I have hardly seen my baby for six weeks; have been at the office from nine A.M. to eleven P.M. regularly.