Mark made the following speech at a breakfast meeting on UK relations with the EU and the Coalition in 2012: Now one-twelfth of the ‘New’ Year is already behind us, but the Eurozone saga continues unabated. I have frequently observed that it is a victory for politics over economics, but it also reflects a victory for sheer human nature. Too often when we are confronted with painful choices, we as humans default into denial. Perhaps politicians across our continent are not such a bizarre breed or law unto themselves as we all thought!

Mark made the following contributions to a debate tabled by Stephen Hammond MP on UK-India trade.

Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster, Conservative) It is a pleasure to be here under your chairmanship, Mr Walker, and in a debate initiated by one of my close friends in Parliament, my hon. Friend Stephen Hammond.

I will speak, if I may, very briefly. I have made two visits to India—in 2003 and in 2006. Between those years, there was a change in Government. What struck me was the confidence of the business and political classes in New Delhi and Bombay. I suspect that, six years ...

Mark made the following speech at a couple of City meetings this week:
The coalition’s spending programme for the duration of this parliament was supposed to have been settled conclusively in last November’s pre-budget report. On that basis next week’s Autumn Statement was designed to be a routine affair. Instead the government is investing substantial political capital in the hope that this set-piece parliamentary event will promote UK economic growth beyond its recent anaemic levels. We are unlikely to hear the Chancellor admit.

Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster, Conservative) I thank my hon. Friend Mr Baron—my very old parliamentary friend—for securing this debate. He talks with immense sense and, as a man who had a job outside politics before entering this place, immense experience. After 20 years in the financial markets, I suspect he has forgotten more about finance than many people who talk on these matters on all our behalves know.

Conventional wisdom dictates that high noon for the euro is imminent.

Mark was unable to speak in the Budget Debate due to the large number of speakers but was able to make a number of interventions each of which can be found in the following text.