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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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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
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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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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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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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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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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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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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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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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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We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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Put on top of that the fact that the whole world is looking at Britain and saying how is this country going to pay its way in the future. They are looking at other countries like Greece who can't pay their way in the future and you see savage spending cuts, big cuts in pay.
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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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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 understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.
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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 didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
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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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