Quotes from 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.

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.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

In opposition, you move to the centre. In government, you move the centre.

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

Providing great schooling is the single most important thing we can do to help any child from a disadvantaged background succeed. It's also the single most important thing we can do to boost the long-term productivity of our economy.

I will listen to any argument put to me.

Only the U.K. can trigger Article 50. And in my judgement, we should only do that when there is a clear view about what new arrangements we are seeking with our European neighbours.

I get a lot of letters from people.

I am a social liberal.

Our long-term economic plan is all about creating jobs and the economic security that comes with that.

I very much support financial education in schools.