“There was a real fear that a euro-zone bank might fail, that we'd have a sovereign debt problem in one of the larger European economies. That's dissipated, thanks largely to the action of the European Central Bank.”

British former politician and newspaper editor

George Gideon Oliver Osborne is a British former politician and newspaper editor. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2016 and as First Secretary of State from 2015 to 2016 in David Cameron’s government. A Conservative Party member, Osborne was the Member of Parliament for Tatton from 2001 to 2017. His public life is tied to British politics and the senior offices he held during the Cameron years.