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George Osborne

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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
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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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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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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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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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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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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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.
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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has become a much more vibrant and interesting place. A lot more business is done here.
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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 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 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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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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