A few questions. Who would be a better and more reassuring candidate for Chancellor? George Osborne or Ken Clarke? Who would be a more impressive candidate for Chief Secretary and the control of public spending? Philip Hammond or John Redwood?...

If you had a fiver for every time a Tory speaker today has said ‘five more years of Gordon Brown’ you would soon be rich enough to start worrying about the 50p tax rate. All the speakers in the economy debate stressed how the country ‘cannot afford five more years of Gordon Brown.’ George Osborne talked about how the Tories had to win three battles---the battles over the pa...

George Osborne saved the 2007 Tory conference with a tax cut. He’s recalling that mood today, elaborating on the plans to cut corporation tax which – as James detailed a while ago – will be the backbone of his first budget. Now, you may think: we know all this. Osborne has said he’d cut corporation tax from 28p to 25p and cutting the small companies rate to 20p. He had prom...

GEORGE Osborne appealed to voters to put their trust in the Tories today – asking whether they really wanted another five years of Gordon Brown.

The shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, could be in charge of the British economy in just over two months. So it is well worth looking at what he stands for. Last Sunday he came up with the stunning idea   “to sell shares in the nationalised banks to ordinary Britons at a discount in order to reward them for

George Osborne will unveil an emergency "enterprise" budget within 50 days of a Conservative election victory which will sharply cut taxes for business, it can be disclosed.

Here is a selection of some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the past week. Fraser Nelson gives some reasons to be cheerful about Cameron and the Tories. James Forsyth has some advice for Cameron, and welcomes George Osborne’s Mais lecture. Peter Hoskin watches Alistair Darling unleash the forces of hell, and observes Brown come round to the Mandelson way of thinking. David Blackbur...

Britain risks losing its economic "sovereignty" unless cuts are made this year to reduce the record budget deficit, George Osborne warned last night.

THE brother of shadow chancellor George Osborne was yesterday suspended from practising medicine for six months for misconduct relating to prescriptions he wrote.

Britain risks losing its economic "sovereignty" unless cuts are made this year to reduce the record budget deficit, Tories warn.