George Gideon Oliver Osborne CH (born 23 May 1971) is a British government official and paper proofreader who filled in as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister David Cameron from 2010 to 2016. An individual from the Conservative Party, Osborne was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 2001 to 2017. He has been editorial manager of the London Evening Standard paper since May 2017 and seat of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) since September 2016. 

Osborne worked quickly as a consultant for The Daily Telegraph before joining the Conservative Research Department in 1994 and turning out to be leader of its political area. He proceeded to be a unique counselor to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street just as for Prime Minister John Major's crusade group in the gathering's ineffective 1997 general political race, before turning into a speech specialist and political secretary to Major's replacement as gathering pioneer, William Hague. 

Osborne was chosen as MP for Tatton in 2001, turning into the most youthful Conservative individual from the House of Commons. He was selected Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury by Conservative pioneer Michael Howard in 2004. The next year he ran David Cameron's effective gathering administration battle. Cameron then named him Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and, after the 2010 general political decision, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cameron–Clegg alliance government. He filled in as Cameron's accepted Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party in restriction and in government nearby William Hague, and proceeded in this job following the last's retirement from the House of Commons in the 2015 general political decision. 

As Chancellor, Osborne sought after grimness approaches planned for decreasing the spending shortage and propelled the Northern Powerhouse activity. After the Conservatives won a general greater part in the 2015 general political decision, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his subsequent government and gave him the extra title of First Secretary of State.

During the prevalence of David Cameron, George Osborne was broadly seen as a likely future Leader of the Conservative Party; one Conservative MP proposed that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron implied that the two adequately shared force during the length of the Cameron Government. Following the 2016 choice vote to leave the European Union and Cameron's ensuing abdication, he was excused by recently selected Prime Minister Theresa May. He came back to the backbenches for a year before leaving open office. 

Osborne wedded Frances Howell, creator and senior little girl of Lord Howell of Guildford, a Conservative legislator, on 4 April 1998. The couple have two kids, a kid, conceived in Westminster on 15 June 2001, and a young lady, additionally conceived in Westminster, on 27 June 2003. In July 2019 the couple reported that they were to separate. 

Osborne is a piece of the Notting Hill set and bought a six-room house in Notting Hill in 2006 for £1.85 million. 

Osborne is beneficiary to his family's Irish baronetcy, of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon in County Waterford. He has an expected individual fortune of around £4 million, as the recipient of a trust subsidize that possesses a 15% stake in Osborne and Little, the backdrop and-textures organization helped to establish by his dad, Sir Peter Osborne. 

In May 2018, The Daily Telegraph revealed that Osborne and his kin had found "with amuse" that their maternal grandma Clarisse Loxton-Peacock (an exciting Hungarian émigrée) was Jewish, and in this manner that in Jewish law they are Jewish as well.