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
George Osborne quotes about
bed chancellor closest experience four himself item lay leadership lying morning news programme realised ruled shadow thinking turned
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
thinking looks economy
I think you can look at the British economy with confidence.
thinking bail needs
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.
thinking balance rich
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.
country thinking law
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.
thinking people support
The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.
strong thinking people
I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
passes
They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.
brown cannot challenges chancellor face global leadership
Brown is an old-fashioned tax-and-spend chancellor who cannot give the leadership we need to face the challenges of the new global economy.
ability bill compete damage failure fiscal footing global gordon lack public reform responsibility taxpayer
The taxpayer is footing the bill for his failure to reform the public services, and Gordon Brown's lack of fiscal responsibility will damage our ability to compete in the new global economy.
democratic distracted everyday learned nature stick
I've learned to be true to yourself, stick to the big arguments, don't get distracted by the everyday kerfuffle that is in the nature of any democratic system.
absurd attention campaign desperate divert issues leadership matter merely photo smear
The allegations are completely untrue, and dredging up a photo from when I was 22 years old is pretty desperate stuff. This is merely part of an absurd smear campaign to divert attention from the issues that matter in this leadership contest.
job
Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.
economic falling global growth investment poor threaten
Falling investment and poor productivity threaten Britain's long-term economic growth and competitiveness in the new global economy.