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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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The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
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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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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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I have done everything I can to move Britain out of the financial danger zone.
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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'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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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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I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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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 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 get a lot of letters from people.
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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 plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.
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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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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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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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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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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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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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