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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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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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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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I believe in public services.
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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 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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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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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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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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Britain is China's best partner in the West.
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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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