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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.
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 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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We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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We support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.
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I believe in public services.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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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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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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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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Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.
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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'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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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 is China's best partner in the West.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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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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