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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.

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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What I'm interested in is Britain projecting itself abroad, and through that its values and the things it holds dear. And I don't think you do that by refusing to talk to the world's second-largest economy [China]. In fact, that is positively counter-productive in my view.
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
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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 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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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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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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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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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 need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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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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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 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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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on, we have a powerful history and tradition of taking an interest in what is going on in the world, we've also got a very real interest in the future, in remaining connected.
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