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...David Cameron and his chancellor George Osborne were both in the Notting Hill set....
...It recently brought in former UK chancellor George Osborne as its non-executive chair and James Anderson, the former Baillie Gifford fund manager, as a managing partner....
...Ben Zaranko, at the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said cuts to the civil service and a larger portion of the R&D budget “won’t be enough” to fund the defence spending pledge to 2030....
...“I found myself sitting at a dinner opposite from George Osborne and he asked me the same question,” says Tennant. “He said, ‘How is it that you and Chris Lowe get on so well?’...
...So if you decide to write anything, I’d rather it wasn’t about me.”...
...But as the programme explains, when its emerging composing duo Joel Goodman and Jan Osborne met playwright Joan Greening at the Fringe, she persuaded them that she should give the script a substantial revamp...
...In contrast, it tightened persistently in 2010-14, under former Tory chancellor George Osborne....
...They remember that the IMF warned George Osborne about his plans, only to be surprised by the UK’s economic performance....
...That, in Osborne’s view, meant an elected mayor. Such mayors were subsequently made a prerequisite for devolution deals elsewhere, too....
...“I talked to one nice Australian visitor who joked, ‘I thought I’d just check that the whole place hadn’t been stolen,’” Beard says. It was a painful jest....
...“It felt more the Cameron/Osborne approach — you try and allow people to fulfil their potential,” said one Tory MP....
...There are lots of things I’d like to change. If it’s affordable to do so, then I would do so,” he added. How many people are affected?...
...When George Osborne did it in 2007, he scared Gordon Brown away from calling an election. But even Osborne never went through with it. Can the Conservatives find a new raison d’être?...
...D:Ream’s 1993 hit is a banging tune and perfect dance-floor filler, with a chorus everyone can sing with their arms in the air. It was also New Labour’s 1997 election song....
...There is nothing in the pit to match the siren wail of Osborne’s vocals and onstage guitarist Marc Hayward, while excellent, never quite takes control — a better sound mix might help....
...One former Tory cabinet minister said: “I’d expect Labour to put up taxes on the other side of the election....
...In 2007, the UK’s then shadow chancellor, George Osborne, promised that the Conservatives would raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1mn if they were elected....
...I couldn’t decide whether to buy or sell, but I’d just like to buy high-level headhunters. Because there are lots of Conservative ex-ministers out there looking to be placed in work....
...I’d like the [green] surcharge on electricity bills to go for starters,” he told the FT....
...So you’d think they would stand any chance of getting that demographic back or starting to rebuild support. They’d have to do more in the Spring Budget....
...EY partners usually have to retire at 60, so Baldwin would have needed an exemption to do a full four-year term if he’d become chief executive....
...Former Tory chancellor George Osborne, a supporter of HS2, said on his podcast recently that new railways could not be conjured up overnight....
...Since George Osborne scrapped the 55 per cent charge on pension pots that remained unused at death, advisers say pensions have made a “pretty good” IHT planning tool....
...“Jon Ashworth was making the point that [former Tory chancellor] George Osborne took £12bn out of welfare so these are really significant sums you’d have to find if you wanted to make all of these changes...
...“Dull is the eye that will not weep to see/Thy walls defac’d, thy mouldering shrines removed/By British hands,” he wrote in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”....
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