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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

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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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
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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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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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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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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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 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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We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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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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I think it is absolutely central to our economic plan as a country not only that we put our own house in order but that we better connect ourselves with other parts of the world, particularly the faster growing parts of the world.
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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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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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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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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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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 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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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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What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has become a much more vibrant and interesting place. A lot more business is done here.
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