George Osborne suggests Rachel Reeves is ‘heir to David Cameron’

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George Osborne has prompt that Rachel Reeves is the “heir to David Cameron” – and himself – as he predicted Labour will win the following election.

The shadow chancellor channelled one other former Tory chief, Margaret Thatcher, throughout a part of a serious speech on the financial system final week.

The former chancellor as soon as famously referred to as Lord Cameron, now the overseas secretary, the “heir to Blair”.

At the time, he says, “the Tory refuseniks were appalled”.

But, he provides in a diary for The Spectator journal, “moving on from lost battles is the key to future success”.

In authorities, he says, he and Lord Cameron “accepted parts of the Blair inheritance – social liberalism, the minimum wage and so on, just as Blair had before him accepted the Thatcher inheritance of union laws and the market economy”.

The similar sample can now be seen within the present shadow chancellor, he suggests.

“Now Reeves is saying she wants to strengthen the Office for Budget Responsibility I introduced, adopt austere fiscal rules and won’t put up corporation tax,” he factors out, asking: “Is she the heir to Cameron/Osborne?”

Elsewhere, Mr Osborne, as soon as extensively seen as the person probably to change Lord Cameron as prime minister, predicts Labour is “going to win” the looming common election.

It comes after a polling guru put Labour’s possibilities of securing the keys to No 10 at 99 per cent. In a blow to the Tories, Sir John Curtice stated the possibilities the Conservatives might flip round their dire ballot rankings was small, and added: “The Labour Party will be in a much stronger position to negotiate a minority government than the Conservatives because, apart from possibly the DUP, the Conservatives have no friends in the House of Commons.”

Labour has constantly been 20 factors forward within the polls.

Rishi Sunak has dominated out a common election on 2 May, however the prime minister nonetheless faces a possible electoral mauling on the day as voters forged their ballots within the native elections.

The PM is additionally going through an exodus from his occasion after two cupboard ministers give up forward of stepping down as MPs on the common election.

A complete of 63 Conservative MPs, together with former PM Theresa May, have now stated publicly they won’t stand the following time round.

A Labour supply dismissed the “heir to Cameron” claims as “rubbish”. They added: “A claim that has about as much credibility as Osborne’s campaign for David Cameron to be Labour’s foreign secretary. And it’s because of the OBR we know the damage five Conservative prime ministers have done to the economy.”