Lord Cameron rebukes old ally (and former Tory chancellor) George Osborne for causing ‘nothing but trouble by praising Labour’s Rachel Reeves as his ‘heir’ ahead of the election [Video]

05:41 EDT 24 Apr 2024, updated 08:13 EDT 24 Apr 2024

They were once a political double act at the top of government. But even the tightest of duos can fall out when their heyday is over. 

David Cameron has – playfully – taken aim at his former chancellor George Osborne over the latter’s praise for Labour finance chief Rachel Reeves.

Last month Mr Osborne, who is now a businessman and postcaster, praised her fiscal conservatism and suggested she was the ‘heir to Cameron/Osborne’.

This caused a bit of a stir, as Lord Cameron is the Foreign Secretary in a Conservative Government trailing Labour badly in the polls. 

And it has earned Mr Osborne a gentle rebuke from his friend and former boss. Speaking to ITV on a tour of Asian states Lord Cameron was asked about the analogy.

‘George Osborne, since he’s been doing this blog (sic) has been nothing but trouble to me, I can tell …