I very much support financial education in schools.

Establishing proper economic governance that allows the Eurozone to undertake the integration it needs whilst protecting the interests of the single market for all 28, the rights of member states who are not in the Euro - including of course the UK - is really important for the future of the European Union.

No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

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.

I think Britain needs to get out there on the world stage and make itself heard. And for much of my political career, there has been a sense of retreat from the world stage because of what happened in the Iraq War.

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.