George Osborne admitted being influenced by the Queen.
George Osborne has revealed how a bagpipe school escaped his cost-cutting austerity agenda after an intervention from the late Queen.
The anecdote, which featured in the former chancellor’s podcast he co-hosts with Ed Balls, faced an online backlash given the deep funding cuts to health, nurseries and other public services between 2010 and 2015.
On their Political Currency podcast, Osborne told Balls, his Labour opposite number during the austerity years... Читать дальше...