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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.

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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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We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.
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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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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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I get a lot of letters from people.
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No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.
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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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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.
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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 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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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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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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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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