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Osborne announced on Monday that he is giving up nearly all his current jobs to become a partner at the investment bank Robey Warshaw. It is unclear how much Osborne will be paid at Robey Warshaw, which has advised on some of the largest UK takeovers since it launched in Published: 29 Jul Published: 6 Jul Charlotte Higgins.

Published: 29 Jun Brief letters Language changes, but God is constant. Published: 28 Jun George Osborne at the British Museum: what do they see in him? Laura Cumming. The trustees all voted for the ex-chancellor as their chair. He went on to be a special adviser to Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Douglas Hogg and work for John Major at 10 Downing Street, including on Major's unsuccessful general election campaign. In Opposition, he worked as a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

The following year he ran David Cameron's successful party leadership campaign, and was subsequently appointed Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. After the general election, Osborne was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Cameron—Clegg coalition. He succeeded Alistair Darling, inheriting a large deficit in government finances due to the effects of the lates financial crisis.

As Chancellor, Osborne pursued austerity policies aimed at reducing the budget deficit and launched the Northern Powerhouse initiative. After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State.

He was widely viewed as a potential successor to David Cameron as Leader of the Conservative Party; one Conservative MP suggested that the closeness of his relationship with Cameron meant that the two effectively shared power during the duration of the Cameron governments. He said he was "proud to be joining Mr Osborne had been editor of the Evening Standard.

Last year he became editor-in-chief of the London free-sheet when Emily Sheffield took over as the day-to-day editor. BBC media editor Amol Rajan said he leaves the paper "at a time when its business model, depending on heavy commuter footfall in London, is broken".