The Latest Breaking News from George Osborne

‘This hits the wrong people’: holiday let owners say Hunt’s scrapping of tax relief won’t affect rich

Wealthy second home owners who can afford to allow them to sit empty will carry on, say those with small holiday lettings

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2024

London mayoral election: George Osborne says Susan Hall campaign feels abandoned by Tory HQ

Former Chancellor speaks out as Paul Scully joins in criticism of Tories’ London campaign video

Evening Standard · Mar 28, 2024

‘Our chances? Zero – and getting worse’: inside a Tory death spiral

Frank Hester, Lee Anderson, an unpopular budget … as the catalogue of Conservative disasters piles up, discipline seems to be breaking down, and any hope of election victory fading

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024

Toxic budgets: the UK chancellors who left a poisonous legacy

Before an election, chancellors often try to woo voters with tax cuts that leave the incoming government in a hole. Here are six ‘poison pill’ speeches

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

The Conservatives’ economic record since 2010 in 10 charts

From a huge budget deficit to weak GDP and a record rise in tax, we look at the background to the Tory budget

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2024

Fourteen years of Tory economics – ‘major mistakes’ and ‘crisis after crisis’

As the chancellor prepares next week’s budget, Labour says it is staring at a dire inheritance. The voters look likely to agree

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024

One simple change could restore faith in local democracy. But nobody is talking about it

If council tax was charged at 3% of disposable income, only the richest would pay more. Funny that it hasn’t been implemented, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK · Mar 1, 2024

Clare Lombardelli named deputy governor of Bank of England

Ex-Treasury official and adviser to David Cameron will replace Ben Broadbent, making MPC majority female for first time

The Guardian - UK · Feb 29, 2024

Labour in power faces dire economic inheritance, says Rachel Reeves

Shadow chancellor criticises Tory years of failure and says national mission is needed to kickstart economy

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

Affordable housebuilding in London is set to collapse by 75%. That’s a problem wherever you live

A huge grant cut imposed by George Osborne in 2010 is hitting hardest in the capital but will soon be disastrous elsewhere, says the author Peter Apps

The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2024