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Conference, I come with good news and bad news.
The good news is that we are in government after 13 years of a disastrous Labour administration that brought our country to the brink of bankruptcy.
The bad news? We are in government after 13 years of a disastrous Labour administration ...
Thank you. I am very grateful to Bloomberg for inviting me to speak here today.
August used to be regarded as a quiet month for the economy. In the last three years, it has been anything but. It was in August 2007 that the inter-bank credit markets froze up and ...
Mr Deputy Speaker, This emergency Budget deals decisively with our country's record debts. It pays for the past.
And it plans for the future. It supports a strong enterprise-led recovery. It rewards work.
And it protects the most vulnerable in our society.
Yes it is tough; but it is ...
My Lord Mayor, ladies and gentlemen.
It is humbling to speak here tonight conscious of the long line of distinguished Chancellors who have preceded me.
I have been looking back at some of their speeches for inspiration, and was particularly struck by what Austen Chamberlain said here at the Mansion ...
Seven days ago, I stood in this building and told you that this new coalition Government's top priority was to bring confidence back to the economy, by showing that we could deal with Britain's record deficit, starting this year.
I told you we would cut wasteful spending.
I ...
With just a week to go to the general election, you will hear us politicians today set out our stall - and you will hear us tell you what the next government should do to sustain this fragile recovery in the coming months.
But don't forget that there is a ...
Today we are previewing our new Election Broadcast that will be aired tomorrow. Unusually we have chosen to give up our slot for a new political party.
A party with the potential to change the way that Britain is governed, with far reaching consequences for every man, woman and child ...
Good morning, and on behalf of myself, Ken and Philip, can I welcome you to the venue for our press conferences during the general election.
This will be the first of many such mornings we spend together here.
Today we're going to talk about how a Conservative Government would ...
I welcome this annual opportunity to begin the second day of the Budget Debate, for it gives me a chance to bring to the House's attention all the things that were in the Budget but never mentioned in the Budget debate.
And it gives us all a chance to ...
We come together today at a critical moment for British enterprise. And a pivotal juncture for the economy as a whole.
We are just 50 days away from the most important election for a generation. And the decision we all going to have to make is this: which way are ...
At the weekend we said we were going to turn the spotlight onto Labour's economic record and the choice facing voters at the election. That work begins now.
This week, we will focus on what five more years of Gordon Brown will mean for the people of this country ...
We come together with less than 70 days to go before the most important election we have known for a generation.
Less than 70 days before we decide our country’s future for the next generation.
And today I am going to talk to you quite plainly and soberly about ...
Thank you for inviting me to give this annual Mais lecture. Few Mais lectures have been given at a time when the challenges facing British economic policy makers were so difficult and complex as they are today.
Britain has emerged - just - from the longest and deepest recession in living memory ...
I believe that in the end all elections are about a choice between the future and the past.
As we emerge from the economic wreckage of the past decade, the British people are now looking for a different kind of future.
So today the Conservative Party answers this central question ...
Thank you to Imperial for hosting today's speech. I was here eighteen months ago talking about how much more needed to be done to meet the threat of climate change and energy insecurity.
Since then: 150,000 square kilometres of rainforest have been destroyed; 45 billion more tonnes of ...
Mr Speaker, once again the Chancellor tells the House of Commons what he has already spun to every national newspaper. Let us separate fact from government fiction.
We welcome the modest break up of some of these large banking conglomerates - a break up he wholly opposed when we Conservatives first ...
A week ago, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood here in this very room in the full expectation that by now we would be out of recession.
He said that "one set of data showing positive growth will not be enough". Well one set of positive data would have been ...
Scotland needs an economic recovery that lasts and creates real jobs. The next British Conservative Government will deliver that.
We are hugely optimistic about Scotland's future prosperity.
We will not repeat the mistakes of the last ten years. Labour built the Scottish economy on shifting sands of huge debts ...
We know what the task is.
Britain is coming out of the deepest recession since the war.
Our country is facing the largest budget deficit in our modern history.
And we will have no choice but tackle it decisively if we are to stop high interest rates and the unemployment ...
Today I want to set out the Conservative strategy for the recovery.
I want to argue that we must draw the correct conclusions from the last two years if we are to design the right policies for the future.
And, just as the Conservatives have comprehensively won the spending argument ...
Thank you to Margaret and the Local Government Association for hosting us today. I have called this meeting today because I want to make use of a unique opportunity.
Most councils in England are controlled by Conservatives. And at some point in the next eight months, I hope we will ...
It's a pleasure to be here at Demos again, this time as a member of your advisory council.
Demos is now firmly established as a leading voice of the liberal conscience in British public life - the organisation that best carries forward the intellectual tradition of JS Mill, Isaiah Berlin ...
The White Paper we are publishing today sets out the Conservative plan for sound banking that will lead the British economy from crisis to confidence.
It is an essential component of a sustained economic recovery.
It addresses head-on the difficult issues that the Government's own White Paper so conspicuously ...
Mr Speaker, Can I thank the Chancellor for his statement?
Although, frankly, almost all of it was splashed over the front pages of today's newspapers - and so once again Parliament comes last instead of coming first.
But let me deal with the contents.
Of course, there are some things ...
We're all here today to celebrate the launch of the UK's first indices for green companies - the Environmental Opportunities Indices.
As many of you will know, the Conservative Party has been working with the LSE and the FTSE on this project right from the beginning.
I proposed the ...
Thank you for inviting me, for the second time, to speak to your annual Conference.
Let me, on behalf of you all, thank your Director General Stephen Hadrill for all he has done in the last few tumultuous years to ensure the interests of the members of the ABI are ...
Mr Deputy Speaker, It is a great pleasure to open the second day of this debate as it gives us an opportunity to look at the detail of the Budget and then to highlight the things the Chancellor chose to omit from his speech yesterday.
And it is a pleasure ...
I’d like to thank John Alker and the Green Building Council for hosting today’s event.
John, I know you’ve been working closely with Greg Clark and his team, and we’re grateful to you for your help and expertise.
We meet here today with Britain in the ...
Thank you for inviting me back here to the RSA. I am pleased that we are engaging with your policy team on a wide range of issues.
Two years ago, I gave a speech in this room on 'open source politics', and how the internet and new forms of social ...
Madam Deputy Speaker, today we have seen, as we heard at Prime Minister's Questions, the fastest monthly rise in unemployment on record - worse than any month of the 1980s or 1990s.
Vacancies are at a record low, which used to the government's excuse on days like this, and ...
This morning I was at Jaguar-Land Rover in Castle Bromwich. This afternoon I will be talking to employers in the Black Country. Large or small, businesses in the West Midlands and across the country are facing a desperately difficult time. Orders are down.
Sales have slumped. Import costs are rising ...
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I thank the Chancellor for his statement but, to be blunt, we have heard all these claims before.
Back in October, just like today, he told us that a huge taxpayer bail out of the banks would 'get lending started again'; he stood there ...
I'd like to thank Reform and the London Stock Exchange for hosting this conference. We've heard from Ken Clarke, who I'm delighted has agreed to return to front line Conservative politics.
Ken is one of those increasingly rare things - a successful former Chancellor.
He took the tough ...
It's a pleasure to be back here at the Institute of Chartered Accountants. I'd like to thank Michael Izza and his team for organising this event.
And on behalf of me and my colleagues, David Cameron, Francis Maude and Philip Hammond I want to thank you for coming ...
Mr Speaker, I thank the Chancellor for his statement.
But I think he should have been straighter with the British people about what is happening today. This is not some long-planned, carefully thought-through 'second phase' of government policy.
It is instead the clearest possible admission that the first bailout of ...
I'd like to thank Policy Exchange for hosting this event today.
It's my first time here under your new Director Neil O'Brien, who is already taking Policy Exchange from strength to strength.
I come to speak to you about the economy at the end of another disturbing ...
In a speech about fairness to Demos, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said:
"It's a pleasure to be here at Demos.
I'd like to thank Richard Reeves - the new Director of Demos - for hosting this speech.
As his recent Prospect article on the importance of teaching character showed, Richard ...
Delivering the CPS Annual Lecture, George Osborne said:
"I'd like to thank Jill Kirby and the Centre for Policy Studies for inviting me here today to give this Annual Lecture.
The CPS helped to lay the intellectual foundations for the arrival of a transforming Conservative Government in 1979.
In a speech to the environmental organisation Green Alliance, George Osborne said:
"I'd like to thank the Green Alliance for their kind invitation to speak here today.
It is my opportunity to thank Stephen Hale and everyone at the Green Alliance for your tireless campaigning and advocacy on environmental ...
Speaking at the launch of the "Making Taxes Simpler" report at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales, George Osborne said:
"I'd like to thank Geoffrey Howe for all his work in producing this excellent report.
Geoffrey has been campaigning on this issue for longer than I ...
"Lord Mayor, it is truly a great honour to be asked to speak tonight - and to do so here at the Mansion House for the first time.
Let me just say, Lord Mayor, I hope it is not the last time you invite me to speak in your house - and ...
Addressing the annual conference of the British Chambers of Commerce in Liverpool, Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne said:
It is a real pleasure to once again address your annual conference and to do so in the great city of Liverpool. Liverpool has contributed so much to our history and our world ...
In a speech at Policy Exchange, London, on Monday 14 April 2008, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said:
I am grateful to Policy Exchange for once again providing me with this opportunity to speak to you.
Last week I visited Wall Street and Harvard. I went there to speak to the ...
Last Friday I was in New York City meeting some the heads of the major investment banks who are on the front line of the current financial turbulence.
Today I am honoured to be here at Harvard, where I want to learn from those who are at the cutting edge ...
"Thank you very much for inviting me here today.
You've heard a lot today about what leadership means in the private sector. I want to talk about the leadership that Britain needs from its Government.
My argument today is a simple one.
The British economy faces its most testing ...
In a speech at Policy Exchange, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said:
"I want to thank Policy Exchange for providing me with this opportunity to speak to you today. I hope that in future you bring the kind of innovative thinking to tax and economic policy that you have already brought ...
In a speech to the London School of Economics, the Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne said:
"It is a pleasure to be here at this event organised by the London School of Economics and the British Chambers of Commerce.
I'd like to thank Howard Davies, the Director of the LSE ...
In his speech to the Conservative Party Conference, Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said:
"There are currently a number of people living in Britain who register for non-domiciled tax status offshore. It is a good thing for Britain that they live here and bring their talent and their investment to our ...
The Shadow Chancellor begins to set out the price we are all paying for Gordon Brown’s broken society.
Britain needs a strong economy and a strong society.
For tackling social breakdown is not just a moral imperative.
It is an economic imperative too.
In an age of intense global ...
Welfare Reform
Thursday 7th June 2007
George Osborne MP
It's a great pleasure to be speaking here at this conference on welfare to work.
I'd like to thank Clifford Chance for sponsoring today's event.
And I'd like to thank all of you for coming here today ...
