George Osborne is going to “reform the Treasury”, it is reported. Oh dear, we’ve been here before haven’t we? Harold Wilson gave it a good go, innumerable others have tried and failed too and Gordon Brown “reformed” the Treasury so much that it became a government within a government. That was a consequence of Brown’s determination that every piece of policy should be micro-managed by his departme...

Treasury sources have denied that an MP swore at George Osborne, the chancellor, over the EU referendum.

When George Osborne and Vince Cable start to rebuild the economy, they will have the help of some high-powered advisers and City heavyweights.

George Osborne is under pressure to hand over up to £17.5 billion of extra taxpayer money to help bail out struggling European countries.

Responding to George Osborne's BBC interview, Labour's Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liam Byrne MP told Labour Matters: What is clear from tonight's interview is that George Osborne will say anything to distract attention from the fact that he would cut SureStart and cut schools spending. It is utterly misleading for Osborne to claim that the Prime Minister prevented the Tories ge...

David Hanson MP, Labour's Shadow Treasury Minister, in response to George Osborne's article in today's Daily Telegraph, said:

Not a great day for George Osborne. The allegations about what he and CCHQ CEO Andrew Feldman said to Russia's richest man are hardly helpful to the Conservative cause. The allegations follow a testing time for Mr Osborne. The Telegraph,...

There are several interesting columns on George Osborne in the papers today. In The Times, Tony Blair’s former speechwriter Phil Collins warns Labour to stop underestimating the Chancellor, who is defining the political battle on his terms at the moment. Peter Oborne, by contrast, is highly critical of Osborne in his Telegraph column, warning that Osborne’s partisan presentation of the...

Peter Mandelson comes over as a little rattled today in the Guardian with his personal attack on George Osborne. Yesterday George made it more difficult for him, by refusing the BBC’s request to spell out the numbers “behind the cuts” so Labour could go back to playing their

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Chief Secretary to the Treasury responding to George Osborne's speech today said: "Today George Osborne made credibility the test and then failed it. The only thing he succeeded in doing was to talk Britain down. "In a press conference riddled with mistakes, he promised clarity but what we got was more confusion. He was asked five times what his cuts would be thi...