I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.

[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.

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.

One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.

The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.

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

The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.