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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.

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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Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.
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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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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 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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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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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 get a lot of letters from people.
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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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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 believe in public services.
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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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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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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.
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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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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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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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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