George Osborne
George Osborne
George Osborneis a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliamentfor Tatton since 2001. Under the premiership of David Cameron, from 2010 to 2016, Osborne served as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth23 May 1971
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I would say I have taken substantive action to make things easier for people.
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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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You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.
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The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.
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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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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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Working in the Major government, we all saw, pretty close at hand - perhaps closer than a junior minister - the problems that the party was facing, ... Those who learned the lessons, and those who didn't. I did. I still for the life of me can't work out why Blair and Brown didn't. The euro would be like an ERM that we couldn't even leave.
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Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook.
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What this country needs is a Chancellor with his mind on the job not on inheriting the Prime Minister's crown.
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If someone believes that living on benefits is a lifestyle choice, then we need to make them think again.
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Well can I just say unlike my predecessors, Conservative and Labour, I have set up an independent body that studies whether what I'm saying is true, whether I've met the targets that I set out.
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I'm a Conservative who believes in lower taxes. They lead to a more enterprising economy. But I'm not somebody who believes you can fund lower taxes by borrowing more money.
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You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.