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The Right Honourable George Osborne MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Incumbent
Assumed office 12 May 2010
Prime Minister	David Cameron
Preceded by	Alistair Darling
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office 5 May 2005 – 11 May 2010
Leader	Michael Howard David Cameron
Preceded by	Oliver Letwin
Succeeded by	Alistair Darling
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office 14 June 2004 – 5 May 2005
Leader	Michael Howard
Preceded by	Howard Flight
Succeeded by	Philip Hammond
Member of Parliament for Tatton
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Martin Bell
Majority	14,487 (32%)
Personal details
Born	(1971-05-23) 23 May 1971 (age 53) Paddington, United Kingdom
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Frances Howell (1998–present)
Children	Luke Liberty
Residence	11 Downing Street
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford Davidson College
Website	Official website Constituency website

George Gideon Oliver Osborne, MP (born 23 May 1971 in Paddington, London) is a British Conservative politician. He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the United Kingdom, a role to which he was appointed in May 2010, and has been the Member of Parliament for Tatton in Cheshire East since 2001.

Early life and family

Osborne is the eldest of four sons. His father, Sir Peter Osborne, 17th Baronet, co-founded the firm of fabric and wallpapers designers Osborne & Little. His mother is Felicity Alexandra Loxton-Peacock, the daughter of artist Lady Clarisse Loxton Peacock.

Originally named Gideon Oliver, he changed his name to George when he was 13. In an interview in July 2005, Osborne said: "It was my small act of rebellion. I never liked it. When I finally told my mother she said, 'Nor do I'. So I decided to be George after my grandfather, who was a war hero. Life was easier as a George; it was a straightforward name."

Education

Osborne was educated at two independent schools in west London: at Norland Place School in Holland Park and St Paul's School in Barnes (near Hammersmith), followed by a Bachelor's degree at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford where he received a 2:1 in Modern History. At Oxford he edited the university's Isis magazine, and was a member of the Bullingdon Club. He also attended Davidson College in North Carolina for a semester as a Dean Rusk Scholar.

Early career

Osborne's first job was entering the names of people who had died in London into a National Health Service computer. He also briefly worked for Selfridges, re-folding towels. He originally intended to pursue a career in journalism, but instead got a job at Conservative Central Office.

Political career

Osborne joined the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and became head of the Political Section. Between 1995 and 1997 he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as special advisor to minister Douglas Hogg (during the BSE crisis) and worked in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street.

Between 1997 and 2001, he worked for then Conservative leader William Hague as a speechwriter and Political Secretary. In this role he helped prepare Hague for the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions, often playing the role of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Under the successive leaderships of Michael Howard and David Cameron he remained on the Prime Minister's Questions team.

Member of Parliament

Elected as the Member of Parliament for Tatton, Cheshire, in June 2001, Osborne succeeded the Independent MP Martin Bell, who had famously defeated the controversial former Conservative minister Neil Hamilton at the 1997 election. Osborne won with a majority of 8,611, becoming (at that time) the youngest Conservative MP in the House of Commons. At the 2005 election, he was re-elected with an increased majority of 11,731 (51.8% of the vote) and in 2010 increased his majority still further to 14,487.

Shadow Cabinet

In September 2004, Osborne was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Following the 2005 general election, he was promoted to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer at the young age of 33 by the then-Conservative Party leader Michael Howard. Howard had initially offered the post to William Hague, who turned it down. Press reports suggest that Howard's second choice for the post was in fact David Cameron, who also rejected the job as he preferred to take on a major public service portfolio (he was made Shadow Education Secretary). Thus Howard turned to Osborne as his third choice for the role. His promotion prompted speculation he would run for leadership of the Conservative Party when Howard stepped down, but he ruled himself out within a week. Osborne served as campaign manager for David Cameron's leadership campaign, and kept the Shadow Chancellor's post when Cameron became leader later that year.

In 2009 when David Cameron was asked whether or not he would be willing to sack a close colleague such as Osborne, he stated, "With George, the answer is yes. He stayed in my shadow cabinet not because he is a friend, not because we are godfathers to each other's children but because he is the right person to do the job. I know and he knows that if that was not the case he would not be there."

Osborne has expressed an interest in the ideas of "tax simplification" (including the idea of flat tax). He set up a "Tax Reform Commission" in October 2005 to investigate ideas for how to create a "flatter, simpler" tax system. The system then proposed would reduce the income tax rate to a flat 22%, and increase personal allowance from £4,435 to £10,000-£15,500. The idea of a flat tax is not included in the current Conservative party manifesto.

Each year between 2006 and 2009, Osborne attended the annual Bilderberg Conference, a meeting of influential people in business, finance and politics.

Comments on Gordon Brown

During Osborne's response to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget Report on 5 December 2005, Osborne accused Brown of being "a Chancellor past his sell by date, a Chancellor holding Britain back". In an interview the same week, he also referred to Brown as 'brutal' and 'unpleasant'. In October 2006 Osborne was rebuked by the Speaker of the House of Commons when he attacked the Chancellor at Oral Questions to the Chancellor by citing a comment attributed to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton, describing the Chancellor as likely to make an 'effing awful' Prime Minister. It was widely suggested that Osborne was leading an assault on Brown which would allow the Conservatives to discredit him without damaging David Cameron's public image. Osborne faced criticism from some quarters for appearing to suggest that Brown was "faintly autistic". After talking about his ability to recall odd facts in an interview, a host suggested that Osborne may have been "faintly autistic"; Osborne responded by saying that "We're not getting onto Gordon Brown yet".

"Run on the pound"

On 14 November 2008, in an intervention described by the BBC's Nick Robinson as "pretty extraordinary", Osborne spoke out warning that the more the government borrows the less attractive sterling becomes. He said: "We are in danger, if the government is not careful, of having a proper sterling collapse, a run on the pound." Labelling Gordon Brown's tactic as a "scorched-earth policy", which a future Conservative government would have to clear up, Osborne continued: "His view is he probably won't win the next election. The Tories can clear this mess up after I've gone." Lord Kalms, a prominent supporter of David Davis in the 2005 leadership election, told the BBC that former shadow home secretary David Davis would be more appropriate as shadow chancellor.

The Deripaska claim

In October 2008, Osborne's school and university friend the financier Nathaniel Rothschild stated that George Osborne had tried to solicit a £50,000 donation from the Russian aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska, which would have been a violation of the law against political donations by foreign citizens. Rothschild wrote: "t turns out that your obsession with Mr. Mandelson is trivial in light of Mr. Osborne's actions. I also think it ill behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances. Perhaps in future it would be better if all involved accepted the age old adage that private parties are just that." Rothschild had hosted Deripaska, Osborne and Lord Mandelson at a party in his villa in Corfu. The alleged solicitation of a donation occurred on Deripaska's yacht during the party. The Electoral Commission received a formal complaint initiated in a letter by the Liberal Democrats' Home Affairs Spokesman, Chris Huhne, requesting them to investigate the claims against Osborne. The Commission rejected the claims and said it saw "no information" suggesting an offence. The story was coined by the press as 'Yachtgate.'

Expenses

In 2009, he received criticism for the way he had handled his expenses, after he was found to have "flipped" his second home, changing which property he designated as his second home in order to pay less capital gains tax. The Lib Dems estimated he owed £55,000 to the public purse as a result of this. He had previously paid back £1,193 on overpayments on his mortgage and chauffeur fares after a complaint from a Labour activist, and it also emerged that he had claimed £47 for two copies of a DVD of his own speech on "value for taxpayers' money". Parliament's standards commissioner's report found that although Mr Osborne had breached the rules the offence was "unintended and relatively minor". Osborne had been told at the time by the Fees Office that his claims would be within the rules. "We entirely accept that Mr Osborne derived no significant benefit from them," the report added. The BBC's Political Correspondent Iain Watson said the repayment was relatively small in comparison with those made by some other MPs and would not be regarded as politically damaging.

2010 general election campaign

During the 2010 general election campaign, Osborne was considered to have been sidelined due to his perceived unpopularity and the perception as a 'weak link' by both the Liberal Democrat and Labour strategists.

Political views

The Financial Times describes Osborne as "metropolitan and socially liberal. He is hawkish on foreign policy with links to Washington neo-conservatives and ideologically committed to cutting the state. A pragmatic Eurosceptic". There is evidence of this commitment to cutting the state in his party's manifesto, with Osborne and the Conservatives seeking to cut the deficit "faster and deeper" than any other main party as well as committing to various tax cuts such as inheritance tax and national insurance. According to an IFS report before the 2010 election, the Conservatives needed to find more money from cuts beyond what they had outlined than any other major party, although the report was also critical of Labour and the Lib Dems.

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Osborne was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer on 12 May 2010 and, as per custom with Cabinet Ministers, was sworn in as a Privy Counsellor the next day.

Osborne acceded to the chancellorship in the continuing wake of the financial crisis. His major economic policies consist of a programme of austerity measures. He set himself the target of reducing the UK's deficit to the point that, in the financial year 2015–16, the total public debt would be falling as a fraction of GDP.

Two of his first acts were setting up the Office of Budget Responsibility and commissioning a government-wide spending review, to conclude in autumn 2010, to set limits on departmental spending until 2014–15. In July 2010, Osborne sought cuts of up to 25 per cent in government spending to tackle the deficit, taking on the £20 billion cost of building four new Vanguard-class submarine to bear Trident would require a severe reduction in the rest of the Ministry of Defence budget. The Chancellor insisted that Trident had to be considered as part of the MoD's core funding. He said, "The Trident costs, I have made it absolutely clear, are part of the defence budget." He warned that if Trident was considered core funding, there would have to be severe restrictions in the way that Britain operated militarily, amid suggestions that regiments could be axed, or, potentially, the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy amalgamated. Liam Fox said, "To take the capital cost would make it very difficult to maintain what we are currently doing in terms of capability."

On 4 October 2010, in a speech at the Conservative conference in Birmingham, Osborne announced a cap on the overall amount of benefits a family can receive from the state, estimated to be around £500 a week from 2013. It has been estimated this could result in 50,000 unemployed families losing an average of £93 a week. He also announced that he would end the universal entitlement to child benefit, and removed the entitlement from people on the 40% and 50% income tax rates from 2013.

In February 2011 Osborne announced Project Merlin to encourage lending from banks to businesses. Merlin was not a success, so Osborne decided not to repeat it.

In July 2011, with the News of the World phone hacking affair drawing criticism of relationships between politicians and the media, particularly with News of the World owners News International, George Osborne was described as leading a pro-News International faction within the government. It was also reported that in 2007 Osborne made the case for David Cameron hiring Andy Coulson, editor of the News of the World at the time alleged phone hacking took place, as director of communications. Osborne had also flown to New York to have dinner with Rupert Murdoch two weeks before the media regulator Ofcom was due to rule on whether to approve a takeover of BSkyB by News Corporation, and had—in the year following the 2010 general election—attended 16 other meetings at which News International executives were present, including five with Rebekah Brooks, four with James Murdoch and two with Rupert Murdoch himself. Osborne was requested to make a written submission to the Leveson Inquiry, though was not asked to appear in person.

In November 2011, Osborne was criticised for selling Northern Rock to Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money at a £400m loss to British taxpayers, but Osborne insisted the decision was forced on him by the terms of an agreement signed by the previous government.

In January 2012, Osborne announced he would not use UK taxpayers' 82% controlling-stake in RBS to vote down the bonus of Stephen Hester in April, citing the precedent set by the previous Labour government. Labour and Coalition inaction can be contrasted with action taken by the US government with regard to companies that it bailed out. In March, Osborne unveiled plans for a radical overhaul of financial regulation that will hand the Chancellor new powers to take charge in a crisis, rein in the Bank of England. The Financial Services Bill will be put to Parliament alongside a memorandum of understanding between the Treasury and the Bank that will set down how the authorities should respond to another financial crisis. It will make clear that responsibility lies with the Chancellor whenever taxpayers' money is put at risk to avoid a repeat of the Northern Rock when Alistair Darling found he could not order the Bank to act. Publication will begin the legal formalisation of the new architecture of banking supervision that will see the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) major powers moved to the Prudential Regulatory Authority at the Bank. It will also enshrine in law the principle that the regulator can seize a failing lender and wipe out shareholders to protect financial stability.

In March 2012 Osborne faced opposition to changes in tax policy which included a reducing a 50% income tax rate on top earners, which he said had been specially designated by his predecessor as "temporary", to 45%, while imposing a VAT tax on food such as Cornish pasties when served at above ambient temperature. Critics were alarmed by the potential effect on vendors, with members on the Treasury Select Committee suggesting that Osborne was inexperienced with the issue after a comment that he 'couldn't remember' the last time he'd bought such a pasty from Greggs. The Guardian called the pasty decision "logically correct", as pasties are hot food like kebabs, which are currently subject to the 20% tax, but called it "bad policy" politically, because raising the tax on pasties burdens lower income groups already facing 3.5% inflation but 1.1% wage growth.

In April, Osborne faced scrutiny over whether he would personally benefit from his reduction in the top rate of tax announced in the 2012 budget. The same month he said he was "shocked" by the scale of tax avoidance by the UK's highest earners; the scale of such avoidance has been estimated at £25bn a year. He committed £10 billion, a sum equivalent to £1,600 per household, to the IMF's resources to help deal with the eurozone crisis if needed. He was accused of "locking out" the Treasury Select Committee from the process of selecting a replacement for Mervyn King, whose term as governor of the Bank of England expires in 2013.

Personal life

Osborne married The Hon. Frances Victoria Howell (b. 18 February 1969), author and elder daughter of former and current Conservative Cabinet Minister Lord Howell of Guildford, on 4 April 1998. The couple have two children, Luke Benedict, born at Westminster, London, on 15 June 2001, and Liberty Kate, born at Westminster, London, on 27 June 2003. He has an estimated personal fortune of around £4 million, as the beneficiary of a trust fund that owns a 15-per-cent stake in Osborne & Little, the wallpaper-and-fabrics company co-founded by his father, Sir Peter Osborne, Bt. George Osborne is related to the siblings from KING (band) through his Grandfather Clement Samuel Horn who incidentally built the Bengal Nagpur Railway in India.

Parody & satire

The Real George Osborne

In 2011, the World Development Movement and Hoot Comedy produced a 14-part online comedy series called 'The Real George Osborne'. Featuring Rufus Jones, The Thick of It-inspired series follows George Osborne and his long-suffering advisor Vicki as they cook up a series of ill-advised stunts in an effort to increase the Chancellor's profile. The series was created to highlight the problem of food speculation.

See also

• Conservative Research Department
• Cameron Ministry
• New Enterprise Council (Conservative Party, United Kingdom)

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External links

• George Osborne MP official Conservative Party profile
• George Osborne for Tatton official constituency site
• Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 1803–2005
• Voting record at Public Whip
• Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou
• George Osborne collected news and commentary at The Guardian
• George Osborne collected news and commentary at The Telegraph
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• George Osborne at IMDb
• Profile: George Osborne BBC News, 5 April 2005
• Economic thinking after the crunch, video speech, RSA Insights, 8 April 2009
• The Real George Osborne, parody series featuring Rufus Jones as George Osborne, November–December 2011

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