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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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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
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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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I didn't come from a traditional Tory background it was urban and metropolitan.
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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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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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I get a lot of letters from people.
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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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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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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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We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.
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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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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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What's interesting is whilst Shanghai has gone stellar - literally, in these massive buildings which have appeared since I first visited - Beijing has become a much more vibrant and interesting place. A lot more business is done here.
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The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
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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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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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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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Britain should not be forced to make a choice between joining the single currency and leaving the EU, because if we're forced to make that choice we would leave the EU.
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The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
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