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 understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.

You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.

Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.