Osborne vows to carry on as Chancellor after the election in echo of Thatcher vow to go 'on and on'
George Osborne has vowed to continue being Chancellor after the general election – echoing his heroine Margaret Thatcher’s famous vow to go ‘on and on’. Chancellor George Osborne has revealed that he plans to stay on in the Treasury after the next election Former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously vowed to go 'on and on' in Number 10 in an interview in 1987 - three years before she was forced from office Mr Osborne's remarks, in an interview with the Evening Standard, are reminiscent of Margaret Thatcher's vow not to stand down as Prime Minister. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg told the Glasgow conference earlier this months that Mr Osborne had tried to block increases in the personal tax allowance – a key Lib Dem manifesto pledge. Mr Clegg told delegates that during Budget discussions with Mr Osborne in 2012, the Chancellor told him: ‘I don’t want to deliver a Lib-Dem Budget.’ Mr Osborne said the Lib Dems election pledge to increase the personal allowance would have been impossible without Tory cuts.
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