George Osborne has announced plans to abolish national insurance for new companies during the first two years of a Conservative government.

Not my words, but those of the editor of Conservative Home. For the last few weeks, here, here and here, I have been calling on Cameron to sack George Osborne. More and more Tories are now agreeing with me.

A Conservative election victory would trigger an emergency budget to ensure low interest rates and a cut in public spending says George Osborne.

Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Exchequer Secretary, responding to George Osborne's confusion over his economic policy, said: "George Osborne has again shown today that the Tories do not have a coherent answer to the global financial turmoil. "The Tories remain totally confused on borrowing: first calling for borrowing to fall, then they said it was right to rise, now George Osborne says he wa...

The Tories are already planning for government George Osborne tells Robert Winnett.

After a meteoric rise through the Tory ranks George Osborne has long seemed destined to play a key role at the very top of a future Conservative government.

George Osborne says government ought to think carefully before allowing large taxpayer-owned banks to continue as single entities The two biggest banks largely owned by the taxpayer could be broken up under the Tories to prevent them threatening the stability of the economy, George Osborne suggested today. The shadow chancellor said that when the government came to sell its stake in the Royal Bank...

A Conservative government would be prepared to break up Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis, the shadow chancellor George Osborne announced yesterday. In a speech on the lessons to be learned from the recession, Obsorne warned that the government may be encouraging renewed risk-taking by helping to create banks that are "too big to fail". The governmen...

There are inevitable signs of growing Conservative impatience with events. The right-wing commentariat has never been on a leash, but Conservative Way Forward is also now calling for a minority government to be formed. George Osborne, in fact, declared on this morning's Today programme that such a minority government was simply not viable, and he's probably right. What the Tories need to be very c...

Where will the growth come from? That is the question the Tories are setting out to answer today when George Osborne proclaims what he will call "a new economic model for Britain". Business investment and savings must, he says, replace debt as the foundation for prosperity. Osborne will set out eight benchmarks which, he claims, will allow people to assess Tory progress in government towards this ...