George Osborne
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Boris Johnson’s party antics of course deserve scrutiny, but a chief architect of our woeful Covid response has virtually got away with it, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Osborne rejects claims that austerity weakened the UK's pandemic response1:46
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Oliver Letwin, who led emergency planning during coalition, says churn of ministers and officials is ‘disaster for country’
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Ex-PM defends austerity programme that unions said meant the NHS ‘didn’t stand a fighting chance’
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From growing health inequalities to a lack of planning, the UK’s unreadiness for a pandemic is being laid bare
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Former PM to be questioned on Monday, with George Osborne, Jeremy Hunt and Oliver Dowden also slated to give evidence
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Union body claims policies left Britain ‘hugely unprepared’, in report before opening hearing of inquiry
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George Osborne destroyed Britain’s safety net. The Covid inquiry should shame him into silence
Polly ToynbeeHis iniquitous austerity programme left the population sick, vulnerable, and unprepared for a pandemic, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Never mind that the DWP itself found that some disabled people can’t afford food or heating, politicians and the media need scapegoats, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Monarch rejects £250m pay rise resulting from David Cameron’s ‘generous’ shake-up of royal funding
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Osborne says the scheme, which closes Friday, ‘helped hundreds of thousands of families’, but critics argue it was ‘only a gimmick’
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Executives race to resolve Match of the Day presenter standoff as senior Tories stop short of backing Richard Sharp on impartiality