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Section size for George Osborne (30 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	8,483	8,483
Early life and education	7,830	7,830
Early political career	2,060	2,060
Member of Parliament	1,011	1,011
Shadow Chancellor (2005–2010)	3,870	20,456
Comments on Gordon Brown	3,548	3,548
Pledge to match Labour spending	1,284	1,284
Deripaska claim	4,283	4,283
"Run on the pound"	1,038	1,038
Expenses	5,744	5,744
2010 general election campaign	689	689
Chancellor of the Exchequer (2010–2016)	11,055	19,541
Reception	8,486	8,486
Political views	3,721	4,283
Brexit	562	562
Political relationships	3,807	3,807
Backbencher (2016–2017)	6,737	6,737
Career after Parliament	30	23,472
Evening Standard editor	8,773	8,773
Comment on Theresa May	2,777	2,777
Attempts to return to politics	7,534	7,534
Career diversification	4,358	4,358
In popular culture	151	151
Personal life	4,522	4,522
Honours	868	1,331
Awards	463	463
See also	91	91
References	35	35
Further reading	252	252
External links	4,408	4,408
Total	108,470	108,470

Expenses

I am curious as to why George Osborne's mortgage expenses issue is not disclosed under expenses in this article.

Plenty sources out there for it.

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^[5] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.19.186 (talk) 14:10, 25 September 2014‎

References

Early Life

I take it some dimwit from Conservative Central Office decided that a picture and caption of "Osborne's ancestor King Henry III" was part of his "Early Life"?

Remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.174.214.242 (talk) 06:16, 28 November 2014

There is a small typo in the article.

The last sentence below the 2015-2016 header and more specific the last word of that sentence misses a 'b':

On the 13th July 2016, following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister, Osborne was sacked and replaced as Chancellor by Philip Hammond. He thus returned to the backenches.[98]

backenches -> backbenches. It is correct in the introduction.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.92.210.73 (talk) 15:32, 13 July 2016

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Change the wording on of the opening paragraph from "is a British former politician" to "is a former British politician" to improve readability 94.175.92.46 (talk) 12:50, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:35, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Austerity

Why no mention of austerity, when this is the main policy this Chancellor is famous for? 2A02:C7E:6648:BB00:F9EE:BFED:9308:1D2A (talk) 18:14, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done —

Dhantegge (talk) 14:24, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The claim that austerity is “generally” viewed negatively and failed to reduce unemployment is false. This comment is highly politicised and evidently biased.

By 2019, the UK had record low unemployment, record high employment and record low percentage of absolute poverty. It had low inflation and reasonable growth compared to the G7. It had strong real wage growth after 2014. It had lower tax rates and higher tax receipts than in 2010. It had the lowest budget deficit since 2002 at 2% of GDP compared to 10% in 2010. 2A0D:3344:21B:B910:E8FA:8887:C3EB:EF08 (talk) 21:41, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add the following template to the bottom of the article, as he is listed on it:

2601:249:9301:D570:FDF1:6BCB:25C:DCD2 (talk) 18:52, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Jamedeus (talk) 01:29, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/dec/07/taxpayers-paid-george-osborne-paddock-mortgage

[2] ttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-osborne-makes-450000-profit-1449641

[3] ttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-in-expense-claim-for-paddock-8393737.html

[4] ttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-in-expense-claim-for-paddock-8393737.html

[5] ttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/9729139/George-Osborne-bought-paddock-with-taxpayers-money.html

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v t e Deputy prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Formally titled	Michael Heseltine (1995–1997) John Prescott (1997–2007) Nick Clegg (2010–2015) Dominic Raab (2021–2022) Thérèse Coffey (2022) Dominic Raab (2022–2023) Oliver Dowden (2023–2024) Angela Rayner (2024–present)
Others fitting definition	Clement Attlee (1940–1945) Anthony Eden (1951–1955) Rab Butler (1955–1963) George Brown (1964–1968) Reginald Maudling (1970–1972) William Whitelaw (1979–1988) Geoffrey Howe (1989–1990) George Osborne (2015–2016) Damian Green (2017) David Lidington (2018–2019) Dominic Raab (2019–2021)