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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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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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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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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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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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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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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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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I'm not saying job done but I am actually pretty confident that Britain can be one of the biggest winners from these big global changes that are taking place and indeed become the richest of the major economies in the world in this coming generation.
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I very much support financial education in schools.
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