Few, especially readers of this bubble-obsessed newspaper, will be surprised to find that the Federal Reserve helped inadvertently to inflate the financial boom by keeping interest rates low and talking a lot about a productivity revolution, and that it deserves criticism for doing so.

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And Friends of the Earth referred to my speech on the environment as compelling, the most compelling made by a Conservative for a long time and I want my party to be seen like that, obsessed about those issues and we will be, that's the characteristic of my leadership.

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