A time for restraint and determination

There are two audiences to which the government needs to speak as we leave the bailout - the domestic one and the overseas one.

There are two audiences to which the government needs to speak as we leave the bailout - the domestic one and the overseas one. And it should tell them both the same thing. We will stick with the programme of reducing our deficit, we will not spend any fruits of growth unwisely and - vitally - we will push on with the reform programmes which are needed to get our economy back on ...