George Osborne

Author : Janan Ganesh
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849544863

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George Osborne by Janan Ganesh Pdf

"Ganesh's dissection of what has driven the intellectual and political revival of the Tories is forensic and incisive."- Anne McElvoy, Mail on Sunday"A lively account of the Chancellor's career ... contains a great deal of fascinating new information."- Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph George Osborne is the most controversial Chancellor of the Exchequer since the Second World War. His austere policies have incited international debate, and his political influence over the government provokes resentment. He is also a survivor with an eye on the premiership. Having authored the most hated Budget of recent times, he now presides over a recovering economy.This is the story of Osborne's breathless ascent to power: a journey driven by luck, guile, resilience, daring and ferocious ambition. As a back-room adviser, MP and Cabinet member, he has enjoyed a starring role or front-row seat at all the Tory dramas since the fall of Thatcher and the dog days of the Major government, from the party's long years in opposition to its eventual and incomplete resurrection. Yet rarely have voters known so little about a politician with such sway over their lives and livelihoods.Fully updated to include Osborne's role in the economic recovery, his appointment of Mark Carney as Governor of the Bank of England, and his prospects as a future Prime Minister, this biography makes sense of a man who is both a personal enigma and a political machine. Based on exhaustive research and access to the innermost parts of the government, it tells the story of George Osborne and the era he has helped to shape.

Author : GEORGE. OSBORNE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008229325

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AGE OF UNREASON. by GEORGE. OSBORNE Pdf

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215543440

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Mr George Osborne by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

A complaint against Mr Osborne was made by the chairman of the Tatton Labour Party, Mr Laurie Burton. The essence of the complaint was that between 2001 and 2003 Mr Osborne had wrongly identified his main home for the purposes of his claims against Additional Costs Allowance (ACA) and that from 2003 he had claimed for mortgage payments that were not necessarily incurred, contrary to the rules of the House. After investigation the Commissioner concluded that he did not regard the breaches of the rules as particularly serious. Mr Osborne has been consistent in pointing out that he took advice at all times from the House authorities and acted on that advice. The breaches were not major or intentional nor did they provide Mr Osborne with any significant financial benefit. He has offered to pay back the excess sums he claimed for and received in 2005-06 and 2006-07. These amount to £1,936, less the sums he has already repaid.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215520521

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Conduct of Mr George Osborne by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Standards and Privileges Pdf

The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards submitted a memorandum on his investigation of a complaint that Mr George Osborne failed to register certain donations in the Register of Members' Interests. These donations were made to the Conservative Party and used by the Party to support the cost of running his office as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. It became clear that many other members of the Shadow Cabinet used funds in this way, so this complaint has ramifications well beyond one entry in the Register. Mr Osborne believes that financial support received through a party to support work as a Shadow Minister does not constitute 'financial or material support as a Member of Parliament'. The Commissioner finds that there is no logical reason to differentiate between the different capacities in which MPs receive financial support, and upholds the complaint, but does not believe Mr Osborne should be criticised as the area was in need of clarification. He makes five recommendations which should regularise the position, and members of the Shadow Cabinet are given four weeks from publication of this report to amend their Register entries. The Committee agrees with the Commissioner's findings and recommendations.

Author : Frances Osborne
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345803290

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Park Lane by Frances Osborne Pdf

A Goldsboro Crown Historical Fiction Award Nominee The bestselling author of The Bolter returns with a delicious novel about two determined women whose lives collide in the halls of a pedigreed London town home. When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she’s unable to fulfill her family’s ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants—in particular, those of its privileged son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who is recovering from a failed relationship that would have taken her away from an increasingly stifling life. Desperate to find a new purpose, Bea joins a group of radical suffragettes and strikes up an intriguing romance with an impassioned young lawyer. Unbeknownst to each of the young women, the choices they make amid the rapidly changing world of WWI will connect their chances at future happiness in dramatic and inevitable ways.

Author : Zedong Mao
Publisher : China Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : China
ISBN : 083512388X

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung by Zedong Mao Pdf

Author : William Keegan
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039641191

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Mrs. Thatcher's Economic Experiment by William Keegan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1614286329

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Alain Elkann Interviews by Anonim Pdf

Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years.

Author : Great Britain. Treasury,HM Treasury
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Budget
ISBN : 0101794223

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Spending Review 2010 by Great Britain. Treasury,HM Treasury Pdf

In 2009-10, public expenditure rose to 48 per cent of GDP whilst income fell to 37 per cent, resulting in the largest deficit in Britain's peacetime history. This Spending Review sets out how the Coalition Government will carry out its deficit reduction plan. Particular focus has been given to reducing welfare costs and wasteful spending. This has enabled the Coalition Government to prioritise the NHS, schools, early years' provision and the capital investments designed to support long term economic growth. Departmental budgets other than health and overseas aid will be cut by an average of 19 per cent over four years. Key areas of Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) in addition to Departmental Expenditure Limits (DELs) for each government department and for the devolved administrations are covered. The Review sets out departmental spending plans for the four years until 2014-15 and further savings and reforms to welfare, environmental levies and public service pensions. The Review protects high value transport maintenance and investment, maintains the science budget, invests in apprenticeships and the low carbon economy and allows universities to increase fees from the 2012-13 academic year. Fundamental reforms will simplify the welfare system and make net savings of �7 billion a year. Social housing will be reformed and social care will receive an additional �2 billion by 2014-15. Public service reform underpins the Review: decentralisation of power; cutting burdens and regulations on front-line staff; improving transparency, efficiency and accountability of local services. Local government will have greater freedom but must work within reduced allocations. Public sector pensions will be reformed in line with Lord Hutton's recommendations. Central government administration costs will be cut by 34 per cent by 2014-15. Government departments will produce business plans later in 2010 detailing reform plans and priorities.

Author : John Heilpern
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307557179

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John Osborne by John Heilpern Pdf

John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biography–the first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depression–reveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity. Through a working-class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led a tumultuous life. An impossible father, he threw his teenage daughter out of the house and never spoke to her again. His last written words were "I have sinned." Theater critic John Heilpern’s detailed portrait, including interviews with Osborne's daughter, scores of friends and enemies, and his alleged male lover, shows us a contradictory genius–an ogre with charm, a radical who hated change, and above all, a defiant individualist.

Author : David Laws
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785900358

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Coalition by David Laws Pdf

When David Cameron and Nick Clegg stepped out into the rose garden at No. 10 to launch the first coalition government since the Second World War, it was amid a sea of uncertainty. Some doubted whether the coalition could survive a full term - or even a full year. Five years later, this bold departure for British politics had weathered storms, spending cuts and military strikes, rows, referendums and riots. In this compelling insider account, David Laws lays bare the inner workings of the coalition government from its birth in 2010 to its demise in 2015. As one of the chief Lib Dem negotiators, Laws had a front-row seat from the very beginning of the parliament. Holding key posts in the heart of government, he was there for the triumphs, the tantrums and the tactical manoeuvrings. Now, he brings this experience to bear, revealing how crucial decisions were made, uncovering the often explosive divisions between and within the coalition parties, and candidly exploring the personalities and positions of the leading players on both sides of the government. Honest, insightful and at times shocking, Coalition shines a powerful light on perhaps the most fascinating political partnership of modern times.

Author : Kate Fall
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780008347819

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The Gatekeeper by Kate Fall Pdf

‘A brilliant vivid and intimate new memoir’ The Daily Mail ’For over a decade Kate Fall was the most influential woman in British politics.’ Alice Thomson, The Times

Author : Frances Osborne
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307476425

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The Bolter by Frances Osborne Pdf

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An O, The Oprah Magazine #1 Terrific Read In an age of bolters—women who broke the rules and fled their marriages—Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Her relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. But Idina’s compelling charm masked the pain of betrayal and heartbreak. Now Frances Osborne explores the life of Idina, her enigmatic great-grandmother, using letters, diaries, and family legend, following her from Edwardian London to the hills of Kenya, where she reigned over the scandalous antics of the “Happy Valley Set.” Dazzlingly chic yet warmly intimate, The Bolter is a fascinating look at a woman whose energy still burns bright almost a century later.

Author : william makepeace thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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vanity fair by william makepeace thackeray Pdf

Author : John Paskievich
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780887555398

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The North End Revisited by John Paskievich Pdf

Cities and the people who live in them are enduring subjects of photography. Winnipeg’s North End is one of North America’s iconic neighbourhoods, a place where the city’s unique character and politics have been forged. First built when Winnipeg was the “Chicago of the North,” the North End is the great Canadian melting pot, where Indigenous peoples and Old World immigrants cross the boundaries of ethnicity, class, and culture. Like New York’s Lower East Side, the North End is also the place that helped to forge Winnipeg’s political identity of resistance and revolt. Award-winning filmmaker John Paskievich grew up in Winnipeg’s North End, and for the last forty years he has photographed its people and captured its spirit. Paskievich’s films, many made for the National Film Board of Canada, follow the lives of different outsiders, from Slovakian Roma to stutterers. The North End Revisited brings together many of the photographs from Paskievich’s now-classic book The North End (2007) with eighty additional images to present a deep and poignant picture of a special community. Texts by art critics Stephen Osborne and Alison Gillmor and film scholar George Melnyk explore the different aspects of Paskievich’s work and add context from Winnipeg’s history and culture.