His credibility isn’t quite what it used to be. Playing games with rules doesn’t make people trust you.

Many voters still…associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Gordon Brown is in serious trouble for the first time as chancellor because of problems of his own making.

It’s a tax-cutting measure and we should have made that clearer.

He has been a very good leader, but we have had a slow hemorrhaging of support and confidence. A lot of damage has been done. I don’t think that the leadership is sustainable.

Rather than simply auditing assumptions, the NAO should report progress against the Chancellor’s fiscal rules at the time of the Budget and pre-Budget report,

It is embarrassing, the things he’s said and the things he’s subsequently done, and it illustrates the wider point that for any political party, including ours, to be dependent on big private donors is not...