Austerity Quote by Norman Davies

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have…

— Alastair Campbell

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the…

— Nick Clegg

It's interesting - you had [George] Osborne crying at [Margaret Tatcher] funeral. She would have been the first person, she would have read these…

— Irvine Welsh

George Osborne and David Cameron do not have a positive vision for where they see our country headed.

— Rachel Reeves

Each day more coalition MPs in seats outside the South East come out against George Osborne's regional pay cut plans, and Vince Cable now…

— Frances O'Grady

If George Osborne wants to end 'unfairness' then he shouldn't scrap a grant that enables every young person to have the same opportunity to…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

What is even more worrying still is George Osborne's breathtakingly complacent response to today's figures. This is a Chancellor who is in total denial.

— Ed Balls

George Osborne and Iain Duncan Smith unveiled reforms to our benefits system that will give everyone an incentive to work.

— Nick Boles

My experience as energy and climate change secretary - in the months I spent battling George Osborne over the budget for investment in low…

— Ed Davey

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

— Daryl Hall

“If George Osborne had dressed up as a cross between Flashman and the Grim Reaper instead of a business suit when he delivered his…

— Grayson Perry

“South of Larissa the landscape began to change. Jude watched an irrigation machine like a giant stick insect creeping over a field, and a…

— Paul Alkazraji