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We need a coalition in this country. A coalition of change. People who have had enough of this.

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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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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We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.
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The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
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The Foreign Office is a very important arm of the British state and I think Britain has a fantastic diplomatic service. We are the only country in the world spending 2% of our national income on defence and 0.7% of our national income on aid. We are the only country in the world doing both of those things.
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I want to see genuine talent rewarded.
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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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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 would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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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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The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.
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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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