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George Osborne

July 2024

  • Andrew Rawnsley

    Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

    Andrew Rawnsley
    The positive messages from Sir Keir Starmer’s team are being accompanied by a doleful drumbeat about the direness of the situation they’ve inherited
  • Catherine Bennett

    Nick Clegg diaries
    Great for parties, useless for governing: grace-and-favour homes are the spoils of power

    Catherine Bennett
    The country piles of Dorneywood, Chevening and Chequers that were so fiercely squabbled over by Tory ministers are suddenly up for grabs
    • David Cameron and senior Tories push back against swift leadership contest

    • The Audio Long Read
      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast

    • The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
      How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster

June 2024

  • Nick Clegg and David Cameron, both in suits and ties, stand at podiums with microphones in the garden of 10 Downing Street and look at each other, Cameron gesturing with his right hand

    The 14 long and wasted years of Tory Britain

  • A still image taken from video shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, sitting next to Prime Minister David Cameron after presenting his Budget to the House of Common (Photograph: REUTERS/UK Parliament via REUTERS TV)

    Today in Focus
    The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1 – podcast

  • Laura Saunders post on X from October 25, 2023. Honoured and excited to have recently been selected as the candidate for Bristol North West #SelectSaunders

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tory candidate facing probe over election date betting allegations threatens to sue BBC – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer

    Keir Starmer ‘not immune’ to argument for scrapping two-child benefit cap

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Harder to own your first home under the Tories, Rishi Sunak admits – UK politics as it happened

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election: Starmer and Sunak clash over taxes, the NHS and immigration in head-to-head TV debate – as it happened

  • Hidden gems from the world of research
    Baby boomers are much more worried about the NHS than their pensions, Mr Sunak

    Torsten Bell

May 2024

  • Then prime minister Boris Johnson speaks at a cabinet meeting on 15 September 2020, with Matt Hancock, then health secretary, and Liz Truss, then international trade secretary, listening.

    Make the Tories pay for their crimes against Britain

    Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s call for voters to make this a ‘punishment election’ for the Conservative party
  • Rishi Sunak speaks with brewery workers during a visit to the Vale of Glamorgan Brewery in Barry, south Wales,

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour says early general election leaves many government commitments ‘in the bin’ – as it happened

    Bills, including smoking ban for people born after 2009, unlikely to become law before 4 July vote
  • Suella Braverman

    The Tories deserve to be abandoned by voters

    Letters: Dr Sebastian Kraemer, John Boaler and Sue Pryce-Jones respond to Justine Greening’s article on why the public has turned away from the party

April 2024

  • George Osborne.

    George Osborne clashed with No 10 over selection of British Museum director

  • Michael Gove and Boris Johnson stand behind lecterns with the sign #TakeControl during a Vote Leave campaign visit in 2016.

    Michael Gove admits to ‘moral cowardice’ during Brexit campaign

March 2024

  • Women campaigning against state pension inequality mark International Women’s Day at the statue of political activist Mary Barbour in Govan, Glasgow.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK politics: government likely to have to ‘pay some Waspi compensation in election year’ – as it happened

    Liberal Democrat Steve Webb says he thinks affected women will have to be offered some ‘form of rough justice’

February 2024

  • Boris Johnson hanging on a zip wire holding union jack flags over a park, with a tower block in the background

    ‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians

    From the Bullingdon boys to a bacon sandwich; Margaret Thatcher in a tank to Theresa May dancing … these landmark images shaped how we saw our leaders

January 2024

  • Chancellor Jeremy Hunt before presenting the spring budget on 15 March 2023.

    The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s tax plans: stop trying to buy votes

    Editorial: The IMF is right: Downing Street is taking a foolish risk by putting tax cuts before public spending
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