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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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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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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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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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