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Your regular reminder that laying the favourite in the next Tory leader market is usually very profitable

Your regular reminder that laying the favourite in the next Tory leader market is usually very profitable

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Ignoring the polls and laying the favourite for the next Tory leader has been consistently a profitable route for nearly half a century. The picture above is from ConHome’s regular polling on the next Tory leader from October 2015, Osborne would lead for five months in a row, yet he failed to become David Cameron’s successor. Now people might argue Osborne’s prominent role in the Remain campaign put the kibosh on him succeeding David Cameron but he’s not the first…

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Day 2 of Osbo’s new job and he’s not being helpful to the woman who sacked him

Day 2 of Osbo’s new job and he’s not being helpful to the woman who sacked him

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Although its now a freebie with a circulation confined to the capital the London Evening Standard is hugely influential in shaping the news narrative – what other parts of the mainstream media come to decide is important. At the moment all eyes are on the paper because of its new editor the ex-MP for Tatton and who until 10 months ago was just about the most powerful person in government excluding the PM. He knows “where the bodies are hidden”…

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I’d feel a lot more comfortable about the Brexit negotiations if Osborne was playing a key role

I’d feel a lot more comfortable about the Brexit negotiations if Osborne was playing a key role

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Beside him May & her team are political pygmies The swift way in which Angela Merkel has undermined Theresa May’s Article 50 invocation plan underlines how critical it is that Team GB has the very best team in the coming two years. That the German Chancellor should so attack May’s Brexit negotiation plan within four hours shows how much she needs a highly skilled political team at her side. A politically astute PM, advised by a politically competent Foreign Secretary,…

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Osborne’s new job: Rewarding failure

Osborne’s new job: Rewarding failure

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Don Brind on the ex-chancellor’s extra job “He wrecked the economy and he’ll wreck anything he gets his hands on.” — the verdict on the new editor of the London Evening Standard from a Tory activist vox popped at the Conservative Spring Forum in Cardiff by Channel Four’s Michael Crick. Brutal as it was, that judgement on the erstwhile Chancellor George Osborne didn’t, in my opinion, go far enough. Not only was Osborne a failure as a Chancellor but he…

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George Osborne to become editor of the Evening Standard but he’s NOT quitting as an MP

George Osborne to become editor of the Evening Standard but he’s NOT quitting as an MP

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Get ready for a row about MPs 2nd/3rd jobs The man who was publicly sacked when TMay become PM last July has found himself another job – he’s to be editor of the London freebie paper, the Evening Standard. But it has been made clear that the MP for Tatton in Cheshire is to continue in that role – something that is bound to cause controversy. No doubt it will be pointed out that Boris Johnson managed for a time…

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Today’s autumn statement is the first big Treasury event since GE2005 when Osborne has not been Chancellor or Shadow

Today’s autumn statement is the first big Treasury event since GE2005 when Osborne has not been Chancellor or Shadow

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Very best wishes to my friend @PHammondMP as he delivers his first Autumn Statement today & helps UK prepare for challenges ahead — George Osborne (@George_Osborne) November 23, 2016 But don’t write off George yet For a man who still looks quite youthful Osborne has been at the top of British politics for a long time. He was in his mid-30s when the then CON leader, Michael Howard, made him shadow chancellor. He kept hold of this brief throughout the…

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The boundary review is so favourable to CON because Cam/Osbo defied the Electoral Commission to fix it that way

The boundary review is so favourable to CON because Cam/Osbo defied the Electoral Commission to fix it that way

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The former Top Tory Two have left TMay a great legacy There’ve been two major changes to the electoral system that the Tories have brought which have combined together to make the boundary review so favourable to them. The first is the introduction of individual voter registration which has had the effect of seeing that millions of names on the electoral roll had initially been lost. The second is the introduction of equal sized constituencies. The big question was when…

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The sting. How George Osborne is tackling the deficit

The sting. How George Osborne is tackling the deficit

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Embed from Getty Images We’re all in this together, so David Cameron told us before the 2010 general election.  This assertion was received with derision by many outside the Eton-attending classes.  And sure enough, when the coalition came to power after the election, the impact of the deficit-reduction measures was felt most keenly by those at the bottom of society.  The Treasury explicitly targeted spending cuts over tax rises in the proportion of 80:20.  With most government spending being deployed…

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