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25 October 2012

George Osborne: the Austerity Chancellor – review

A biographer awestruck by his subject.

By Jason Cowley

We are still awaiting a truly objective portrait of the Chancellor
We are still awaiting a truly objective portrait of the Chancellor. Photograph: Getty Images

George Osborne: the Austerity Chancellor
Janan Ganesh
Biteback, 368pp, £20

Who is this book for? Is it for the general reader interested in Westminster politics or Janan Ganesh’s friends in journalism and those aides and special advisers who work for George Osborne and David Cameron, the “creative young brains” the author praises so lavishly?

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