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  • Send poorest Brits a cheque and don’t hike corporation tax, George Osborne tells Rishi Sunak

    Voice from the cameron era

    Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is convinced a windfall tax is coming, despite the squabbling between Numbers 10 and 11, while also saying he would put a cheque in the post to the poorest families in the UK. Moreover, he disagrees with present Chancellor Rishi Sunak over the proposed rise in corporation tax. [...]

  • Former Chancellor predicts PM will U-turn on HS2 cuts

    George Osborne

    Former Chancellor George Osborne has predicted Prime Minister Boris Johnson will make a U-turn on the government’s decision to cut HS2’s eastern leg. Talking to the Financial Times’ Payne’s Politics podcast, Osborne – who was Chancellor from 2010 to 2015 during David Cameron’s government – labelled the decision to scale back on HS2 as “pretty [...]

  • Former chancellor George Osborne named British Museum chair

    Former chancellor George Osborne named British Museum chair

    George Osborne has been named as the new chair of the British Museum, marking the latest high-profile role for the former chancellor. Osborne will join the board in September and take up the role of chair from 4 October. He takes over from former Financial Times editor and CBI director general Sir Richard Lambert, who [...]

  • George Osborne takes up full-time banking role at Robey Warshaw

    February 1, 2021

    George Osborne is joining boutique investment bank Robey Warshaw, as he shuns a portfolio of wide-ranging roles to become a full-time mergers and acquisitions banker. The former chancellor will step down from his current roles as editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard and a senior advisor to Blackrock at the end of March, taking up a [...]

  • We turn politics into a deposition at our peril

    May 30, 2019

    Politics is not known as one of the more truthful professions. Spin, exaggeration, and truth-stretching are all staples of the politician’s toolkit. We might prefer it to be otherwise, but the reality is that an astute public must take claims uttered by those in office with a healthy dose of salt. It is therefore worrying [...]

  • Theresa May calls for return of maintenance grants for poorer students

    May 29, 2019

    Theresa May will call for the reintroduction of maintenance grants for university students from poorer backgrounds on Thursday. The outgoing Prime Minister is backing a recommendation made by an independent review of further education, which calls for handouts of at least £3,000 for those from poorer backgrounds. Maintenance grants were axed in 2015 by then-chancellor George [...]

  • Esther McVey reveals she will stand in the next Tory leadership contest

    May 9, 2019

    Another Conservative MP has joined the race to become the next Prime Minister, with former work and pensions secretary Esther McVey announcing she will stand in the race to succeed Theresa May. McVey, who lost her Wirral West seat in 2015 before being elected as MP for Tatton two years later, revealed this morning that [...]

  • Evening Standard set to cut jobs as it merges print and online business

    May 3, 2019

    The Evening Standard is to announce a string of job cuts as it looks to merge its print and online businesses. Read more: Mirror publisher Reach revenues slip amid pressure on print In an email to staff, editor George Osborne said the paper is making the cuts in a bid to counteract rising costs. “We [...]

  • Labour policies will represent ‘revolution’ for UK economy says John McDonnell

    April 29, 2019

    Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour will unleash an economic “revolution” if it wins power. The Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, who has previously named Soviet revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky as key intellectual influences, told the BBC he saw parallels with 1979 when Margaret Thatcher swept to power. "Things aren't working for people, so they're [...]

  • A new book about austerity has put Keynesian economists on the defensive

    April 29, 2019

    Notoriously, economists quarrel about almost everything in their subject. But since the publication of John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in 1936, they are supposed to agree on one point: that increases in government spending boost demand and output, and reductions in government spending depress them. Indeed, according to the theory, a [...]

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