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We are not today - although we remain vigilant - talking about a banking crisis, despite a very significant adjustment in financial markets.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Everyone here at the G7 in Japan is clear and that is that it would be bad for the British economy if we left the European Union.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Let me put it simply, if Britain isn't a member of the EU these investments, these jobs will be going to other countries. That's why Ryanair is campaigning so strongly for Britain to remain in the EU, if Britain leaves the single market Britain may be forced out of the Open Skies regime and airfares and the cost of holidays will rise. That's not speculation, that's a certainty.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
That was a completely independent decision that I had no advance warning of, no foreknowledge of. It's got to be an independent decision for our banking regulator.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We know they want reassurance that we are getting this right ... first of all we are a target from this terrorist organisation ISIL (Islamic State).
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We know they want reassurance that we are getting this right ... first of all we are a target from this terrorist organization ISIL (Islamic State).
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The stakes could hardly be higher, if our electricity supply, or our air traffic control, or our hospitals were successfully attacked online, the impact could be measured not just in terms of economic damage but of lives lost.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is right that we choose to invest in our cyber defenses even at a time when we must cut other budgets, the internet represents a critical axis of potential vulnerability.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will defend ourselves. But we will also take the fight to you, strong defenses are necessary for our long-term security. But the capacity to attack is also a form of defense.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It wouldn't be right for me to try and anticipate those numbers, a lot can happen over the coming years, and these forecasts move around, so that's why I think you want a reasonably comfortable margin in delivering the surplus.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If our country doesn't bring the deficit down, the deficit could bring our country down, that's why, for the economic security of every family in Britain, the worst thing we could do now as a country is lose our nerve.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As we continue to work more closely with China, we have an unprecedented opportunity to secure significant investment into some of our most ambitious projects across our Northern Powerhouse.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
For most of my childhood and early adult life, a succession of Labour Party leaders reformed the constitution of the Labour Party. Neil Kinnock did, John Smith did, Tony Blair did, to make sure that it was more rooted in what the British people wanted, if they want to go back to the 1980s, let them. The Conservative Party is not doing that.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will find a new set of regulations that will take into account the new dynamics of the sector.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Non-dom status was meant to be temporary, but it became permanent for some people. Not any longer.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The benefits system should not support lifestyles and rents that are not available to the taxpayers who pay for that system.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You only have to look at the crisis unfolding in Greece as I speak, to realise that if a country's not in control of its borrowing, the borrowing takes control of the country.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Britain still spends too much, borrows too much, you only have to look at the crisis unfolding in Greece as I speak, to realise that if a country's not in control of its borrowing, the borrowing takes control of the country.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will only sell our stake when we can be sure we are getting value for money.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have decided to become the first major western nation to be a prospective founding member of the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, because we think you should be present at the creation of these new international institutions.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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