His friends say that he strove for a week to reconcile making spending savings with protecting the vulnerable – and collective loyalty with personal conviction.
This zinger of a departure is about social justice as well as EU membership – and his farewell letter is a missile aimed at Osborne’s character and conduct.
“I am puzzled and disappointed that you have chosen to resign.”
I am unable to watch passively…fiscal self imposed restraints that I believe are more and more perceived as distinctly political rather than in the national economic interest.”
Parliament has left a gap in legislation that the courts and a quango are filling.
It felt more like a pre-election than a post-election one – and was shot through by a sense of the Chancellor’s political mortality.
There is an important campaigning role for his pro-Brexit views. Let’s hope that we see and hear a lot of him during the weeks ahead.
The current price of protection against Tea Party politics is the risk of Potemkin parties.
A reported conversation that throws light on the Prime Minister’s claim that his renegotiation has achieved real EU reform for Britain.
He should stay on to give it the benefit of his finest hours, worst moments, close shaves, cock-ups, might-have-beens and, yes, wisdom.
Though it would doubtless have happened anyway, given the respect with which she’s regarded in the Commons.
The finding scarcely moves from last month – yet more evidence of the survey’s usual consistency.
Pro-Leave support piles up for the Mayor, Gove and Fox – leaving Osborne and May with most of the pro-Remain rest.