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18: George Osborne: Austerity, Boris Johnson, and the UK's next Prime Minister

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The Misjudgment of George Osborne

I met George Osborne just before I came into Parliament in 2008. He played a very important part of my political career because I rebelled against the government against the Sreelheim whip. 10 minutes before the vote was due to happen, George Osborne comes up to me outside the voting lobby and he says, I am going to promote you to be a minister in 11 days time. And if you walk through that door, I'm not going to promoted you for the rest of the Parliament. So it was amazing. I kind of wasted five years of my life and somewhat at the heart of it as George Osborne. Can you kind of get King Charles? I mean, for heaven's sake

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