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I very much support financial education in schools.

George Osborne

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George Osborne
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 23
British Politician
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George Gideon Oliver Osborne
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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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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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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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You know the illusion of the cheap money is over and now Britain has to go out there and graft and earn its way and create wealth and prosperity in a very competitive world.
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British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.
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I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.
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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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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 want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.
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I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.
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