Elephantstrunk

Mary Ann Sieghart’s article in the the Times is quite reasonable for an article by, for and about Tories on the subject of tax but this paragraph has the beginnings of a personality cult.

But Mr Osborne is playing a shrewd strategic game. He, like Mr Cameron and George Bridges (political director of the party), was right at the centre of government during the exchange-rate mechanism debacle in 1992. The three young men learnt hard lessons from that, and not just about the dangers of tying the pound to other currencies.

By my calculations Osbourne had either just finished finals or was just about to start his final year at University on Black Wednesday. He did not join the Conservative Research Department until 1994.