The No 10 handover has begun – and Osborne’s rivals have a target | Simon Jenkins

David Cameron may want his friend to succeed him, but he and George Osborne now have quite separate agendas

Power never works to rule. No leader should ever volunteer his or her termination in office. From the moment last summer that David Cameron announced he would resign before 2020, energy drained from his office. The Geiger counter over Downing Street fell silent. It crackled instead over George Osborne, Theresa May and Boris Johnson. One of them is the future for every Tory in the la...