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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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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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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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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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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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There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.
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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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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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We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.
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If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.
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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 very much support financial education in schools.
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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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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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We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.
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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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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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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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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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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