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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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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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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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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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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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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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We should be looking at putting a limit on the interest that can be charged on things like store cards.You don't want to end up with totally draconian credit controls but you want some common sense. We want cooling-off periods for store cards so people can't take them out and go straight to the counter and buy 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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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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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 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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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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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[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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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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