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As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

In these difficult times, when tough decisions are required, the differences between Labour and the Tories are becoming much clearer. One party believes in intervention to reduce social and economic costs and the other believes in market forces and letting things take their course.

I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.

When I was a boy during Thatcher, you watched elections and wept in disbelief as the whole country turned blue, Scotland turned red, and we still got the Tories.

Political battles are won when the rich favor them.