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.

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 very much support financial education in schools.

I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

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.

[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.