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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.

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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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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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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Britain cannot afford to cut itself off from what is going on in the world, we are too interconnected with what is going on, we have a powerful history and tradition of taking an interest in what is going on in the world, we've also got a very real interest in the future, in remaining connected.
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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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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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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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No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.
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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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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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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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