We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.

I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

China is absolutely one of the biggest players in the world and if Britain wants to be connected to the world it has to be connected to China.

There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.

I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in order but that we better connect ourselves with other parts of the world, particularly the faster growing parts of the world.

Britain is China's best partner in the West.