David Cameron would be making a "catastrophic" mistake if he were to replace George Osborne as shadow chancellor, Ken Clarke said today. In an interview with the Daily Mail, the former chancellor said that Osborne was the victim of a whispering campaign against him, but that he should remain in post. Some Tories have been speculating about Osborne being moved because opinion polls suggest that the...

George Osborne must be feeling a little uncomfortable today. After all, the speculation about his boss being about to appoint Ex-Chancellor Ken Clarke to a significant role could hardly help make Mr Osborne feel a little… unloved. After all, George saved Dave last year when he was in trouble, but Dave seems disinclined to dismiss reports that George might

Alistair Darling MP, Labour's Chancellor of the Exchequer, said in response to George Osborne's National Insurance Contributions proposals today: "This would derail the recovery this year, undermine deficit reduction, and put public services at risk. George Osborne has panicked and is making policy up on the hoof. "What George Osborne announced today will put families, their public servi...

David Smith is economics editor at the Sunday Times and today he writes of George Osborne: Every day, sometimes on several occasions, an e-mail arrives in my inbox on behalf of George Osborne, the Conservative shadow chancellor. Issued in response to a minor economic indicator or flaky forecast, these missives, apart from rather demeaning the office of

George Osborne must be cursing the day he chose Corfu as his holiday destination last summer. Everything was great for the shadow chancellor before that, but then he got himself entangled in a very silly but also very damaging political situation. The Osborne-Deripaska affair became the first nail in the coffin. Boy George thought he could

Just released from the Shadow Chancellor's office:"George Osborne has met Oleg Deripaska on five occasions, four of which happened over a weekend in Corfu in August. On Saturday January 26th 2008 at the Davos World Economic Forum, Mr Osborne was...

Shadow chancellor George Osborne is speaking at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.

In the course of seven momentous days, George Osborne, the 39-year-old chancellor of the exchequer, has undergone a startling political transformation

THE Chancellor, George Osborne, yesterday called on the country to tell the government where the axe should fall in what he described as the "national challenge of our gen

The Leader's speech is always the highlight of Conservative Party Conference but the most important performance will be given by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. As recently as the Spring Forum in Gateshead, George Osborne was clinging closely to Labour economic...