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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

George Osborne

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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
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George Gideon Oliver Osborne
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Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.
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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
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I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.
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Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on, we have a powerful history and tradition of taking an interest in what is going on in the world, we've also got a very real interest in the future, in remaining connected.
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I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.
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