There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

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

What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has become a much more vibrant and interesting place. A lot more business is done here.

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.

Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.