“Now I’ve got to get in there – we’ve a paper to get off stone!” And with that, at 7.01am this morning, George Osborne as good as skipped into Northcliffe House for his first day in the Evening Standard editor’s chair.
His inaugural edition – never mind that the Standard is now mostly produced overnight – has not disappointed those who predicted Osborne would weaponise the 900,000 circulation freesheet as part of a guerrilla campaign geared towards either a) somehow reinstating Cameroonism as the Tories’ governing philosophy, or, b) monstering Theresa May as revenge for his sacking.
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