The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.

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 believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world.

Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?