article_snippet.sent: Watching Osborne enjoy scampi and chips with a glass of cider and a chat with the locals in a Somerset pub garden, it is hard to believe that only three years ago Osborne was virtually scared to leave the safety of Osborne Treasury office.
article_snippet.sent: it’s fair to say that by 2012 it was tough economically, and I got myself into a position where I was hunkered down in Treasury,Osborne Osborne drinks a pint of Somerset cider as Osborne is interviewed by Political Editor Simon Walters at The Cotley Inn, near Chard, Somerset .
article_snippet.sent: It is one of the reasons Osborne stood aside when David Cameron ran for the Tory Party leadership.
article_snippet.sent: From St Austell it was back to Somerset and Yeovil, where Osborne hopes the Tory candidate will unseat Lib Dem David Laws who was, until two weeks ago, a Coalition colleague.
article_snippet.sent: Osborne was such a fan of Laws that when the Coalition was formed in 2010, Osborne made Laws Osborne deputy, stating that Osborne was ‘put on earth to be Treasury Chief Secretary’.
article_snippet.sent: Well, Osborne didn’t last long in that position!’ hoots Osborne with a fiendish grin.
article_snippet.sent: Danny Alexander, the Lib Dem who succeeded Laws as Osborne’s Treasury deputy, claimed that an unnamed ‘very senior Tory’ told Tory:
article_snippet.sent: Was it Osborne who said it, as many suspected?
article_snippet.sent: Osborne is in Osborne stride now, spitting venom.
article_snippet.sent: A measure of the transformation in Osborne standing was indicated when last month Cameron named Osborne as one of three potential successors – and no one laughed.
article_snippet.sent: So would Osborne like to become PM?
article_snippet.sent: With that, Osborne takes another sip of Osborne Somerset cider, aptly called Thatchers Gold.
article_snippet.sent: Thatchers Gold slakes Osborne’s thirst for now.
article_snippet.sent: But Osborne’s will be left with a permanent bitter taste if the Tories don’t win Election gold on May 7.