Has the unceremonious sacking of Peter Mandelson opened the door to George Osborne?
The New World exclusively revealed in July that senior advisers to Keir Starmer were pushing for the former chancellor to be appointed UK ambassador to Washington ahead of Mandelson eventually securing the role.
Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin revealed the entreaty was very serious — and that the former chancellor was unsurprisingly very much up for it.
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The senior advisers “invested considerable effort in unsuccessfully pushing the former Tory chancellor’s application,” Baldwin revealed.
It was not to be. Ultimately, the job went to Peter Mandelson, who succeeded Dame Karen Pierce into the Edwin Lutyens-designed ambassador’s residence at 3100 Massachusetts Avenue.
But with Mandelson once again out in disgrace over his intimate relationship with the child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, might it be second time lucky for Osborne?
The former Evening Standard editor is currently filling his time chairing the British Museum, working as a partner at the investment bank Robey Warshaw LLP and recording a podcast with one-time sparring partner Ed Balls. But it’s difficult to imagine he’s not currently sitting by his phone waiting for the call sending him to Washington…
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