The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

If you can work and if you're offered a job and you don't take it, you cannot continue to claim benefits. It will be extremely tough.

My question right now would be to Colonel Gaddafi, which is: 'What on earth do you think you are doing? Stop it.'

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

Just as I believe that Britain should want to remain in the EU so the EU should want us to stay.

If we left the European Union, it would be a one-way ticket, not a return. So we will have time for a proper, reasoned debate. At the end of that debate you, the British people, will decide.

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don’t think that’s right.