We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.

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.

Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.

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.

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.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].