Ian Pearson MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, responding to the reports in the Evening Standard and today's Guardian about George Osborne's position, said: "If David Cameron thinks George Osborne is not fit to run the Tory party, what makes him think he's fit to run the British economy? "George Osborne's economic judgement has been wrong at every turn, from opposing the a...

Shadow Chancellor in warning Britain’s dire public finances will impose a “straitjacket” on an incoming Conservative government for years to come, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, claims today, as he declares that he is conducting a careful review of his economic plans in the light of the downturn. In an interview with the Guardian, Osborne claims that

Britain's economic "age of irresponsibility is over", George Osborne has warned the public.

Headline to Guardian leader: Economy: Down, down, deeper and down So, err, where does that come from? Ahhhh, yes….. The Guardian, hip and with it as ever. Cultural references to Status Quo circa 1975. Well, that was when the UK was at its most equal ever, wasn’t it?

George Osborne has faced renewed criticism for warning that sterling could collapse because of government borrowing.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne gives a speech warning people about the dangers of a hung parliament.

The Guardian's US political team look back at the events that have marked and marred the presidency of George W. Bush. Is he really the worst president of all time?

George Osborne has, somewhat belatedly,  picked up the challenge laid down by David Miliband in that famous Guardian article which set out a neo-Blairite strategy for seizing back the Labour party. On the very same pages of that newspaper, Mr Osborne retorts that the Conservatives are now the truly progressive party, offering the genuine solutions to endemic unfairne...

In today's Guardian, George Osborne writes about the virtues of "Nudge". He begins: A few years ago tax collectors in Minnesota were grappling with a problem governments have been trying to crack for decades: how to get people to fill...

Much has been made in the British press of the comments by George Osborne on a future British currency crisis, what he called "having a proper sterling collapse, a run on the pound". Leaving aside- for the moment- the convention which Osborne has broken that opposition politicians do not talk down the British economy, let us examine what George Osborne is saying. On Friday Sterling hit a a six and...