Ian Pitchford

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May’s Plan for Britain was overshadowed by other news. With delicious timing, a few hours before she stood up to speak at the spring conference, it was announced that George Osborne was to become editor of the London Evening Standard. The appointment stunned Westminster. For an MP representing Tatton in Cheshire to take charge of the capital’s leading newspaper was audacious. To do so while holding down six jobs in addition to Osborne’s parliamentary duties was too much for some of his colleagues. Osborne had already trousered – in Westminster parlance – more than £700,000 from public ...more
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
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