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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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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.
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I very much support financial education in schools.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
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There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.
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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.
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We should be looking at putting a limit on the interest that can be charged on things like store cards.You don't want to end up with totally draconian credit controls but you want some common sense. We want cooling-off periods for store cards so people can't take them out and go straight to the counter and buy things.
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I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in order but that we better connect ourselves with other parts of the world, particularly the faster growing parts of the world.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
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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.
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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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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
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We need to think deeply about whether we can sustain banks that are not only too big to fail, but potentially too big to bail.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
George Osborne