Don’t bank on Osborne
Sir: Reinforcing your article on City doubts about Osborne’s economic credentials (Politics, 5 September), a City contact of mine, technically expert in a matter of finance and taxation of central interest to any Chancellor, had a meeting with Osborne a few months back. He found Osborne not only badly briefed and largely ignorant, but disengaged and uninterested in the subject. Neither was he the first, I believe, to have found Osborne arrogant and barely civil. Apart from a very evident need to bone up on economic and City matters, someone in CCHQ clearly needs to make him a present of Dale Carnegie’s famous little book.
Adrian Gobbi
North Yorkshire
Quango tree
Sir: Dennis Sewell rightly highlights the deleterious effect of the quangocracy (‘Cameron must cull the quangos’, 5 September). However, more is needed than just a cull.
Many public sector organisations justify the expansion of their bureaucracy on the grounds they are fulfilling mandatory requirements.
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