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Tragically flawed

issue 10 November 2012

  • George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor

    Janan Ganesh

    Biteback, pp. 313

This is a story of impossible gifts. The Chancellor, George Gideon Oliver Osborne, stands to inherit a 17th-century baronetcy and a large fortune accumulated by his enterprising father. He was also blessed with intelligence, charm, ambition, eloquence and the mysterious ability to seek out power and use it for his own ends.

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