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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.