Shadow Chancellor George Osborne insisted today that he neither asked for nor received money for the Conservative Party from a Russian billionaire.
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WalesOnline on 21st Oct 2008 (via walesonline.co.uk)
Following stories that have linked the Conservative shadow chancellor, George Osborne, with an inappropriate relationship with a Russian Oligargh Oleg Deripaska, the Tory MP has stepped down as a Tory fundraiser… From the BBC :: Mr Osborne has strongly denied allegations he tried to solicit a £50,000 donation for the Conservative Party from Oleg Deripaska. But he told
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LiberalConspiracy on 27th Oct 2008 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Council tax would be frozen for the first two years of a Conservative government Shadow Chancellor George Osborne promised the Tory party conference in Birmingham.
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Telegraph on 29th Sep 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Chancellor George Osborne reminds the Tory Party conference "what state the public finances were in when Labour left office."
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Telegraph on 4th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
A senior Conservative peer has called for George Osborne to be replaced as shadow Chancellor as pressure mounts over the party's lacklustre response to the global economic crisis.
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Telegraph on 14th Nov 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Shadow chancellor George Osborne is speaking at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham.
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PoliticsCoUk on 29th Sep 2008 (via politics.co.uk)
George Osborne the shadow chancellor has been embroiled in controversy after he admitted discussing a substantial donation to the Conservative Party from a controversial Russian oligarch.
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Telegraph on 22nd Oct 2008 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Conservative statement on Russian oligarch funding row by George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, and Andrew Feldman, the Tory fundraiser
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Guardian on 21st Oct 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
George Osborne "has done nothing wrong"- or so the leadership of the Conservatives is trying to tell us. How then, to explain the news that Mr. Osborne will no longer be taking an active role in fund raising for the Conservative party. If he is not a fit an proper person to be concerned in the finances of his own party, how then, can he continue to pretend that he would be a credible Chancellor of...
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CicerosSongs on 27th Oct 2008 (via cicerossongs.blogspot.com)
What fun we politico watchers are having at the moment. No sooner was attention focussed on the newly ennobled Peter Mandleson's dealings with a Russian businessman than a rumour came from nowhere about the Conservative shadow chancellor, George Osborne, asking that businessman to contribute to Conservative Party funds. It is one of those situations I enjoy enormously because it really has ve...
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TheFatBigotOpines on 23rd Oct 2008 (via thefatbigot.blogspot.com)