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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 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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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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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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I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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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 want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.
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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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[Banks] have a clear obligation to help get this country off its addiction to debt because they sure as hell helped to get this country addicted to debt.
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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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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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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 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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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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I'm fed up with Britain being condemned to this future where we borrow the Chinese in order to buy from the Chinese the things that they make for us.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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