George Osborne’s fight for ‘full employment’
George Osborne today set himself a new commitment: to “fight for full employment in Britain”, Gary Gibbon reports.
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George Osborne today set himself a new commitment: to “fight for full employment in Britain”, Gary Gibbon reports.
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Chancellor George Osborne visits one of Britain’s last pits and promises to restore an allowance to hundreds of miners who lost their jobs in the summer.
In conversation with Gary Gibbon – George Osborne tells Channel 4 News what his hair reveals about his economic policy and how the Tories “never really dealt” with Tony Blair as a political opponent.
In conversation with Gary Gibbon: George Osborne denies enduring “dark nights of the soul” over the economy and says he enjoys the job “even when it has its moments”.
George Osborne outlines the “help to work” programme and his hope to freeze fuel duty, but tells the Conservative party conference the battle to turn Britain around “is not even close to being over”.