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.
George OsborneEven a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.
George OsborneNo other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.
George OsborneI think we woefully failed to connect Britain to the growing Chinese economy in the previous decade, and I have sought to remedy that. China is now the sixth biggest trading partner with the UK. We have attracted now the lion's share of Chinese investment that is going into Europe.
George OsborneBritain is not part of the single currency. That is a decision we have taken, a voluntary decision of this country, but as a result are part of a European Union 19 of whose members are rapidly integrating, creating political, fiscal, monetary, economic union to make their currency work. And that is increasingly rubbing up against the operation.
George Osborne