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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

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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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 reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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[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 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'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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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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 have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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