Few, if any, other members of David Cameron’s Tory Government have earned as much since as multimillionaire George Osborne – and the austerity Chancellor remains as out of touch as ever.
Rejecting obvious evidence that his spending cuts weakened Britain’s health and social care services before Covid is the self-denial of an arrogant Conservative who is either utterly deluded or a shameless knave.
What is more he never got the public finances under control. Osborne’s austerity and tax rises choked a promising recovery inherited from Labour as he regularly missed borrowing and debt targets.
