The Washington version of this dinner might get all the global attention (it’s happening tomorrow night), but George Osborne did his best to catch up on Thursday night, professing near endless love for journalists and entertaining them with swipes at his Tory leadership rival Boris Johnson.
The Chancellor hasn’t had the smoothest of relationships with the press in recent months, after the Google tax shambles and the unravelling of his last budget, but here he said the right things to impress the assembled hacks.
Osborne insisted on his commitment to a free press: “A government that controls press is a government that …read more
Source: European Voice
