(This) is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness. |
['] I'm not prepared to accept that, ... I don't give in to ultimatums. |
At the end of the day I don't give in to ultimatums. |
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. |
How can it be fair for a cleaner working in the private sector to subsidize, through their council tax, a more comfortable retirement for someone doing the same job in the public sector? |
I have been more constructively critical of this Government than my predecessors. |
I want to take them down a dark alley |
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. |
Industry sees the possibility of blackouts by 2012 as a 'major concern'. We cannot allow such levels of uncertainty to persist. |
It is time the public sector unions stopped holding the government and the taxpayer to ransom, and got real on pensions. |
Not bad for a 49 year old man [completing the London Marathon in 5h58m] |
People are saying to me that what they don't want to do is put people who cannot afford this into a position where they are harming their own families. |
That's not a great message to send to your most loyal international business partner and best friend in an uncertain world. |
The real answer is to allow access to the EU for goods produced in China and for EU producers to adapt to the challenge. |