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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 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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
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There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.
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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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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 didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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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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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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I get a lot of letters from people.
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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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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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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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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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We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.
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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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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 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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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