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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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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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Britain has no divine right to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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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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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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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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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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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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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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I very much support financial education in schools.
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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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I get a lot of letters from people.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
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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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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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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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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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A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
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