Meeting the Americas Top Story: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Honduras for a meeting of the Organization of American States, where she is facing near-unanimous calls to readmit Cuba and lift the United States' decades-old embargo. Cuba and the United States did agree yesterday to resume talks on migration issues, but Clinton says the United States is not prepared to support Cuba�...

George Osborne the shadow chancellor has said that a Conservative government would replace the Private Finance Initiative for funding big public sector projects.

George Osborne must already be feeling a bit sidelined since Ken Clarke made his comeback. But even he must be surprised at how little attention has been paid to his speech this week, with Conservatives proposing a “new banking settlement”. Is Osborne leading the new “Red Tories” strategy that Sunder Katwala has extensively remarked on

Speaking at the Green Building Council this morning, the George Osborne has called on the Government to adopt ten “green” policies in next week’s budget which would make Britain's economy "greener and more productive". Mr Osborne says that none of...

The received wisdom is that Osborne was unwise to tell tales about Peter Mandelson and unleash the whole "Corfu crisis" sequence of events.  I'm not quite so sure. This week has been very uncomfortable for the Conservatives in general and George in particular but it seems clear the George has done nothing wrong.  Brown made himself look stupid and opportunistic when calling for "the authorities

George Osborne, in his eagerness to try to attack Peter Mandelson, has been caught lying about the extent of his links to Oleg Deripaska. He should resign. Yesterday, George Osborne released a statement which said: "The allegations made in Mr Rothschild's letter to the Times are completely untrue. Both Andrew Feldman and George Osborne deny absolutely that they attempted to solicit a don...

A Conservative government could make "significant" cuts in the rate of corporation tax Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has said.

Conservatives today hailed George Osborne's announcement of a freeze on council tax and cheered the shadow chancellor for 'telling the truth' about Gordon Brown

George Osborne the Tory shadow chancellor will today try to claim Tony Blair's "progressive" political agenda for the Conservatives in an appeal to the political centre ground.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne says the Conservatives are now the progressive party in British politics.