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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    Printing money is the last resort of desperate governments when all other policies have failed.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.

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    George Osborne

    The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    Well you know I've attracted a lot of criticism by, for example, suggesting that child benefit should be taken away from higher rate taxpaying families.

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    George Osborne

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

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

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

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

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    George Osborne

    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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    George Osborne

    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.