In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

We've got to be explicit that the road to greater economic success does not lie in this cosy assumption that you can move from a single market through a single currency to harmonising all your taxes and then having a federal fiscal policy and then effectively having a federal state.

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Britain should be the world's number one center for genetic and stem cell research, building on our world leading regulatory regime in the area.