British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

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

We should be looking at putting a limit on the interest that can be charged on things like store cards.You don't want to end up with totally draconian credit controls but you want some common sense. We want cooling-off periods for store cards so people can't take them out and go straight to the counter and buy things.

Just as it wouldn't be right to only to have an economic dialogue with China, equally you shouldn't restrict your dialogue solely to issues around, say, human rights. You can raise all those issues, and that is what reflects a mature discussion. So I don't think essentially we have to choose between being partners in China's economic development and being proud defenders of British values.

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