george osborne

Last Thursday, I got the train down to London with a mate to attend a Spectator event in at Cadogan Hall in Belgravia. At the event, Andrew Neil quizzed George Osborne about the build up to the financial crisis of 2007/08 and its legacy, as well as the role...

Recent news that MP and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, is to become the Editor for the London Evening Standard has been met with a mixture of shock and shuddering acquiescence. Considering the current state of fake news and twisted politics, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. Satire...

The education system has long been a topic of much contention. Recent proposals set out in Chancellor George Osborne’s budget have promoted a number of divisive policies. Osborne asserts that all schools will be academies by 2020 and schools will be encouraged to enforce longer hours. Some teachers have...

University students and graduates who took out student loans after 2012 are facing increases in the cost of loan repayments due to a hidden change to the system in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement. When the current student loan system was launched in 2012, in order to mitigate the tripling...

The government have this week claimed that more than three million women will increase their earnings as a result of George Osborne’s National Living Wage. However, this statement disguises the fact that most working females, despite a wage increase, stand to financially lose out due to tax increases and...

On July 8th, Chancellor George Osborne announced the complexities of his Emergency Budget for 2015. Many changes were initiated within his long economic puzzle, including the introduction of a national living wage and the scrapping of student grants. From Clegg’s empty promises to freeze tuition fees to Osborne’s eradication...

The 2015 summer budget has been revealed by Chancellor George Osborne. Among measures for Health and Education, the Conservative government announced that maintenance grants for students from low income families will be replaced by loans from September 2016. The maintenance loan will be £8,200 a year. Addressing the reform, he stated there...