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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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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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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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I think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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I believe in public services.
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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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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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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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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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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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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 want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
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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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Britain is China's best partner in the West.
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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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