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George Osborne

The Right Honourable
George Osborne
CH MP
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First Secretary of State
In office
8 May 2015 – 13 July 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by William Hague
Succeeded by Office not in use
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
11 May 2010 – 13 July 2016
Prime Minister David Cameron
Preceded by Alistair Darling
Succeeded by Philip Hammond
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
5 May 2005 – 11 May 2010
Leader Michael Howard
David Cameron
Preceded by Oliver Letwin
Succeeded by Alistair Darling
Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
In office
14 June 2004 – 5 May 2005
Leader Michael Howard
Preceded by Howard Flight
Succeeded by Philip Hammond
Member of Parliament
for Tatton
Assumed office
7 June 2001
Preceded by Martin Bell
Majority 18,241 (40%)
Personal details
Born Gideon Oliver Osborne
(1971-05-23) 23 May 1971 (age 45)
London, England, UK
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Frances Howell (m. 1998)
Children 2
Alma mater Magdalen College, Oxford
Religion Anglicanism
Website Official website
Constituency website

George Gideon Oliver Osborne, CH, PC (born Gideon Oliver Osborne; 23 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton since 2001. Under the premiership of David Cameron, from 2010 to 2016, Osborne served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Osborne worked for The Daily Telegraph before joining the Conservative Research Department and becoming head of its political section. He was a special adviser to Douglas Hogg at the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

In 2001, Osborne was elected as MP for Tatton, becoming the youngest Conservative MP in the House of Commons. He was appointed Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Conservative leader Michael Howard in 2004. In 2005, he ran David Cameron's successful leadership campaign. Cameron appointed Osborne Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and, after the 2010 general election, Chancellor in the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government.


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