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Conservative Spring Forum: George Osborne speech; George Osborne speech SOT - For Conservatives understand something absolutely fundamental about Britain that socialists have never understood - and never will. Governments don't create growth by themselves. It's people who create growth. It's the strivers, the entrepreneurs, the engineers, the innovators, the savers, who create growth. To learn a new skill, to get a new job, to start a new business, to want to leave something to your children. These are the most natural human impulses of all. And that is why for all the realism about our past and present, I am so optimistic about the future. For if you take those impulses of millions who strive to get on, bring them together and make those impulses a reality, then you will have a bigger economy and a better society. In the last ten months we've delivered a great deal to help. We've cut the tax rates on businesses large and small. Funded new apprentices. Stopped Labour's hated jobs tax, and reduced employment costs for millions. We've lifted nearly a million of the low paid out of tax altogether. We've funded new transport and new broadband - including here in Wales with rural broadband to Pwllheli and the great announcement this week of the electrification of the line to Cardiff. But today in Britain there are still too many obstacles standing in the way of people of enterprise and aspiration; too many forces of stagnation determined to frustrate those who want to get on. In my Budget in less than three weeks time, we will confront the forces of stagnation that stand in the way of success; bring down the barriers that stop Britain getting back on its feet. The Budget is going to be unashamedly pro-growth, pro-enterprise and pro-aspiration. It will look at the planning delays, the new regulations, the bureaucracy and the costs that hold business back and stop jobs being created. Not just in London, or the South East - but across Britain. Do you know one of the gre...