All great economists influence all of our thinking. Yes I have read some of Adam Smith, I have read some of Karl Marx, I have looked at the words of Ricardo, I have looked at many, many others.

I don’t consider myself the world’s greatest intellectual but you learnt from everybody, don’t close your mind to the thoughts of others - that way we’re all better informed.

What I can assure all the voters is this - that all of our proposals are fully funded, we’re not raising taxes for low and middle income people at all, in any respect.

We do have to properly fund our public services and I’m utterly determined to do that, and we do that by running the economy in a sensible way and that means an investment-led economy.

We have some of the lowest levels of investment of any of the manufacturing nations of this world.