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George Osborne

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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
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One big theme for me is that we have got to move from an economy built on debt to one where we save and invest in the future.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.
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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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I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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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 would also like to see children aged between 11 and 18 taught financial education in a structured way in schools. I would also say that that is not enough. You have also got to improve numeracy skills, mathematical skills in schools.
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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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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
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What makes people angry and we are on the side of hard-working people who want to get on in life and they see how government is wasting their money.
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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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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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I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
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I believe in public services.
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