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

I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.

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.

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

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.

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.