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George Osborne

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George Osborne is a prominent British politician, born on May 23, 1971. He served as the Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a key member of the Conservative Party. He has been active in British politics for many years, having a significant impact on the country's economic policies.

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“I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.”

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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 to see genuine talent rewarded.”

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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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“Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants”

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“When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair”

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“If you're looking for ways to cut waste in government, you can start with John Prescott.”

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“I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.”

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“Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.”

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“Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.”

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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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“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 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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“It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.”

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“We will also target tax evasion and off-shore tax havens... Everyone must pay their share.”

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“I was shocked to see that some of the very wealthiest people in the country have organised their tax affairs, and to be fair it's within the tax laws, so that they were regularly paying virtually no income tax. And I don't think that's right.”

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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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“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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“I very much support financial education in schools.”

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“One of the big problems we have in this country is that not enough people understand how important it is to save, understand the details of credit card statements, to be able to compare different APRs and the like. I support the idea.”

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“I would also like to see children aged between 11 and 18 taught financial education in a structured way in schools. I would also say that that is not enough. You have also got to improve numeracy skills, mathematical skills in schools.”

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“Let's also teach people about pensions and savings, insurance and the like. But if they aren't already familiar with numbers that won't be as effective as it might be.”

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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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“For example at the moment there is a compulsory requirement to buy an annuity. That is something we would get rid of. It puts some people off saving.”

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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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“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 support the auto-enrolment but we have our doubts about the way the National Pension Scheme is going to be structured.”

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“We have management questions. On increasing the basic state pension in line with earnings, because we have made a clear promise and said that the increase in the pension age has to be brought forward, that is an affordable and deliverable commitment from the Conservative Party.”

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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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“People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an absolute outrage that hard-working people go out to work every day, get up early, come back late, don't see enough of their families in order to pay taxes to fund vast bureaucracies that are inefficient in order to fund a welfare system which allows too many people to sit for the whole of their lives on out-of-work benefits without going out to look for work.”

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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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“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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“Whether [people] run their own business, work for a business, go out there, pay their taxes and see the money wasted, fed up with the money going to the next door neighbor sitting permanently on out of work benefits. There needs to be a coalition of change.”

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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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“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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“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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“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 are pretty tough in saying for example if you've got unsecured debts and less than £25,000 that should not be an excuse for repossessing someone's home.That should not be allowed.You have got to help manage people through this process. I don't want to pretend that it is going to be easy getting out of Gordon Brown's hole.”

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“We have supported the banks, they should be supporting the economy now.”

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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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“We can help people. We have got to move this economy from its over-dependence on debt. People should have manageable debts, a manageable mortgage.”

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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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“Why don't we save and invest in our future and start making the things that millions of Chinese consumers are going to want in the future.”

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“There are a lot of examples where people aren't getting the right information. We could do a lot more with credit card bills so people properly understand that if you pay off the minimum it could take you 41 years to pay off is that right.”

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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 find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.”

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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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“Each time I come it's amazing to watch the development of this incredible country [China].”

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“Britain is China's best partner in the West.”

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Born: May 23, 1971
Known for: British Politician
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