UK fin min on an EU reform-support trip to Scandinavia

  • UK not immune to international crisis

China doing all it can and markets in free-fall. Doesn't bode well

Osborne, like others I'm sure, taking a party line that all will be ok in the end in a bid to stave off greater levels of panic

  • expects sale of Lloyds Bank to be completed by year-end

UK's Osborne- trust me, I'm a fin min