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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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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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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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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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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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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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[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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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 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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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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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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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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I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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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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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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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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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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