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I get a lot of letters from people.

George Osborne

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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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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 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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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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Britain is China's best partner in the West.
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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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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 reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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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 would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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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 a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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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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There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.
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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'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 want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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You also want to look at how the tax system encourages and rewards pension saving. I have set as an ambition reversing the effects of Gordon Brown's tax raid which heralded the beginning of the age of responsibility. We are looking at some very specific tax measures on how we can encourage saving.
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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 did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.
George Osborne