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George Osborne dodges an awkward question in America

 
p14 GEORGE OSBORNE DURING HIS SPEECH AT CONFERENCE TODAY IN BIRMINGHAM PICTURE JEREMY SELWYN
JEREMY SELWYN
21 December 2012

Americans, already on a fiscal cliff, saw George Osborne on the Charlie Rose show.

Rose asked him: “Do you think about becoming Prime Minister?” Osborne said no but Rose fired back: “How can you not?” After much blustering, Osborne said he was “110 per cent” committed to being a successful Chancellor.

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