The coalition government effectively managed the economic recovery after 2008 by balancing public spending while implementing necessary deficit reductions.

“what the coalition government did and it's my failure entirely my failure that I forgot that I wasn't able to tell this story what we did was remarkable we turned an economy which had been hit harder by 2008 than any other mature democracy in the world where unemployment had shot up”

Being a junior party in a coalition government often leads to receiving blame for failures while missing out on credit for successes.

“they said look if you're the junior partying Coalition you get the blame for everything goes wrong I never get the credit that's traditionally what happens in Coalition”