- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
- Balance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
- Flagrant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do recognise that there are areas where the current financial services market, the banking market, just isn't working for chunks of the British economy.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've been a bit too defensive about the European Union rules. We don't want to become protectionist and nationalist in the way we buy things but we think we could do a lot more to promote British business through procurement.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020