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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'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.
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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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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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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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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 understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
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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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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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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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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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If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
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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 get a lot of letters from 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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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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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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Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.
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