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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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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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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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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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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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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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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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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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Establishing proper economic governance that allows the Eurozone to undertake the integration it needs whilst protecting the interests of the single market for all 28, the rights of member states who are not in the Euro - including of course the UK - is really important for the future of the European Union.
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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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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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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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I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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