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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Yesterday George Osborne announced some big changes. Personally, I’m still reeling from the extent of Osborne’s assault on those receiving state support, disgusted at his fig-leaf excuses about preventing people seeing benefits as a “lifestyle choice”. But one thing strikes me about these reforms: how cavalier and unconservative the Conservative Party is now being.
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LiberalConspiracy on 5th Oct 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
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)
The Leader's speech is always the highlight of Conservative Party Conference but the most important performance will be given by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne. As recently as the Spring Forum in Gateshead, George Osborne was clinging closely to Labour economic...
Somehow Caroline Spelman remains in her job chairing the Conservative Party, for now, but with George Osborne having taken dip in his political share price, that could soon change. One of the the party's sharpest political strategists, Osborne would make an excellent Party Chairman and could concentrate on masterminding the next General Election campaign. And the new Shadow Chancellor? Brilia...
