Where did George Osborne go wrong?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Philip Webster is joined by Sam Coates, Hugo Rifkind and Patrick Kidd.Sam Coates:George Osborne got the strategy wrong, the tactics wrong, the politics wrong, the communications wrong and the people-handling wrong - all the things the Chancellor is meant to be good at. MPs think his reputation has taken a hit. After riding high over the summer, the Chancellor's reputation was probably due a correction to the mean, but Boris would be unwise to think things have swung that much in his favour. Anyway the tax credit problem is still far from solved - anyone with any ideas should pop them on a postcard to the TreasuryHugo Rifkind:What's up with students? Last week, Germaine Greer cancelled a lecture at Cardiff University, after a petition circulated calling for her to be disinvited, due to her "problematic" views. When I was a student, visiting speakers included people such as the BNP's Nick Griffin and the radical Islamist Omar Bakri. If we could cope with them, how come students today can't cope with...

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1:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Times Opinion Podcast. I'm Philip Webster. I'm editor of the Times Red Box
1:09.1	Bulletin. This morning I've got with me Sam Coates, Deputy Political Editor of the Times, Hugo Rifkind, Times Columnist and Leader
1:18.3	Writer, and Patrick Kidd, Times Sketch Writer and Diary Editor.
1:25.0	George Almond got the strategy wrong, the tactics wrong, the politics wrong, the
1:29.6	communications wrong and the people handling skills wrong.
1:32.8	All the things the Chancellor is meant to be good at.
1:35.3	We're talking of course about the tax credit debate.
1:37.5	MPs think his reputation has taken a hit.
1:39.7	After running high over the summer, the Chancellor of reputation was probably due a correction anyway,
1:44.0	but Boris would be unwise to think that things have swung too much in his favour.
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