Mapping out his path to the premiership,the chancellor reckoned without many Tory backbenchers – and their buccaneering figurehead Boris JohnsonGeorge Osborne’s budget next week should be another triumphant staging post en route to the premiership, the job for which he has been preparing for more than a decade. Yet he will advance to the dispatch box against the backdrop of a ferocious battle for the future of his party and Britain’s place in the world. Related: The Guardian view on George Osborne: solemn, and binding but always free with one bound | Editorial Continue reading...
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