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You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I always felt very secure and very safe with real estate. Real estate always appreciates.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

We think it would be safer if the Bank of England had responsibility for solvency regulation of UK-based banks, as well as having an overall duty to keep the system solvent. Otherwise, there could be dangerous delays if a banking crisis did hit.

If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

I lived at admiralty house from 2002 until 2006 on advice from special branch on security grounds as defence secretary. The alternative of providing comprehensive security at my personal property would have entailed significant extra costs to the taxpayer.

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.

Our Sheffield and London homes are worth well over a million but the bank owns most of them - we are mortgaged up to the gills.