A month ago Lib Dem Voice’s Alix Mortimer suggested it was high-time the Tories considered ditching their under-whelming shadow chancellor, George Osborne: My guess is that Cameron is wincing his way through the current crisis, burying his head in a cushion every time George goes on TV, and he’s planning the reshuffle. He hasn’t spent

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 ...

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne says the Tories have the "new approach" people want for economic recovery.

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 ...

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...

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 Conservatives have published their economic policies just ahead of a speech by shadow chancellor George Osborne to the party conference in Birmingham.

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...

The Tories should be glad that in George Osborne, they have a Chancellor with a taste for battle, says Benedict Brogan

Lionel Barber, George Parker and Chris Giles of the Financial Times talk to the chancellor of the exchequer