George Osborne prepares to put pen to paper

Although George Osborne is now on the backbench, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer is keen to make sure that he remains a busy bee. As well as jetting off to New York this week to attend Tina Brown’s Brexit bash, the MP for Tatton is now considering putting pen to paper for a book.

However, readers hoping for a salacious account of his time in No.11 are likely to be left disappointed. Speaking at the Guildhall, Osborne hinted that he may revisit a literary project he began several years ago with Danny Finkelstein, the Times columnist:

‘Almost 15 years ago, I started to research a book with a friend of mine, Daniel Finkelstein, that was going to set out how great acts of social change actually come about in our parliamentary democracy – and it was going to subtly, and incidentally, point out that the people who drove these acts of change were often Conservatives. The