The gods are smiling on George Osborne. On Monday, he wrote an excellent article in the FT, explaining why he opposed the government’s fiscal plans and giving a brief sketch of his alternative vision. It was a short, sharp, shock article that contrasted with the tentative and nebulous announcements that characterised the Tory post-New Year slump. They were immediate benefits. On Tuesday, the...
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Spectator on 18th Mar 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
CHANCELLOR George Osborne has warned that "the lifestyle choice of living on benefits" is over, as he seeks to slash £4 billion from the welfare bill.
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Scotsman on 9th Sep 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Shadow chancellor attacks government spending plans as children's secretary says choice for voters at the election will be Labour investment versus Tory cuts The row about the public finances intensified today as George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, accused Labour of being "dishonest" about public spending after the election. In an article in the Times, Osborne said that Brown's claim ...
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Guardian on 15th Jun 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
George Osborne has pledged that no family will get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work as he unveiled Conservative plans to overhaul the benefits system
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FT on 4th Oct 2010 (via ft.com)
David has already blogged about George Osborne and Jeffrey Sach's article in the FT this morning. But it's worth returning to what is as clear and as unalloyed a statement of Tory policy on the public finances as you'll have seen over the past few months. What I find most impressive about the article isn't so much its loose, perhaps nebulous, prescriptions for the ...
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Spectator on 15th Mar 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
George Osborne is facing a storm of criticism over his plans to cut child benefits to higher-earning families amid claims the new system is unfair against single-earner families.
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Telegraph on 5th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Families' welfare benefits will be capped at £26,000 a year, George Osborne has announced.
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Telegraph on 4th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
There's a great deal of rumbling on the Westminster grapevine about George Osborne's position in the Tory party. The FT set the ball a-rolling yesterday, with an article on the "dinner table" ire aimed at the Shadow Chancellor. It contained a juicy quote from a Tory MP, claiming that Osborne "was a good chancellor for the good times – now he’s ...
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Spectator on 13th Nov 2008 (via spectator.co.uk)
The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, plans to draw up strict new rules on tax and spending under a Tory government
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Guardian on 8th Sep 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
All the details are on today's ConservativeHome frontpage but there is some confusion about yesterday's seemingly get-tough message from George Osborne on public sector pay. The FT leads its morning edition with the story - headlining 'Tories take risk over...
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ConservativeHome on 7th Apr 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Spending cuts alone will not be enough to rebalance the public finances George Osborne said yesterday paving the way for a Tory government to raise taxes.
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Telegraph on 12th Aug 2009 (via telegraph.co.uk)
