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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 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.
George Osborne
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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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Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.
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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 want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.
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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
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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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There are those people who don't want change. Well there needs to be a coalition for change amongst the hard-working mainstream majority of the country to crack on and sort out Britain's problems.
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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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You need to have a state pension that doesn't drag more and more people into means-testing each year and make it very difficult for people on low to medium term incomes to save and not see their savings clawed away.
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I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
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The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.
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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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Well look, no one takes pleasure from people making money out of the misery of others, but that is a function of capitalist markets.
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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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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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