What a week for gargantuan Government announcements.

First it was Scotland and, as promised, massive devolution of powers. I will only agree to them if we in England get the same.

It cannot be right that the Scots will decide on their own income tax levels, for example, and then send their MPs south to decide on ours.

The PM promises an announcement on English votes on English matters before Christmas. I shall be watching that space.

His big speech on Europe and immigration seems to have gone a long way to answering all but the fanatical Eurosceptics’ worries.

We like much immigration – people from France and Germany, for example, coming here to work, just as 4.8 million Brits live and work overseas.

What we do not want are benefit scroungers, economic migrants who come here to take advantage of our more generous benefits arrangements, our housing and schools and our superb NHS.

The announcements which Mr Cameron made, for example about immigrants having no right to benefits unless they are here to work, and even then only if they have been here for at least four years, seem to have done a great deal to allay our fears.

He could not have gone further without rushing headlong towards a British exit from the EU; which should not come about as a result of changing some benefits and immigration rules. If we want to leave, then that must be decided in a straightforward referendum, which only a majority Conservative government will offer.

The Autumn Statement was a refreshing mixture of good and bad news. The economy is most certainly going in the right direction, as the unemployment and growth figures amply demonstrate. Interest rates and inflation at historic lows, and the beginnings of a feel-good factor just beginning to creep back.

Yet the deficit and borrowing remain high, and uncharacteristically in a pre-election period, the Chancellor warned of tough times to come. That will happen whoever wins the General Election next May.

So it’s just as well that there were a few spoonfuls of sugar to help the medicine go down. The massive new spending on the National Health Service is demanded by the huge improvements in medical science and by the fact that we are living so much longer. And the traffic nightmare which surrounds Stonehenge is finally to be answered.