Alan Johnson Government Quotations

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

I would like to thank Adair Turner and his fellow commissioners for their thorough analysis of this important issue. The Commission has had a hard look at the pension system in the UK, and has set out the stark challenges we all face in providing for increasingly long retirements. This report brings home the message the Government first highlighted in the 2002 Green Paper; that people must either save more or work longer.

The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust.