Black tie and Brexit: Osborne takes the Remain case to Mansion House
by Phillip Inman from on (#1GW1V)
The chancellor and Bank governor Mark Carney have a chance to put the pro-EU position to the City this week - but have few new cards to play
George Osborne's critics sense that his reputation as a master tactician is unravelling. His "omnishambles" budget of 2012 was a clue to the limits of his powers.
More recently, he entered the battlefield in the EU referendum with all guns blazing, only to run out of ammunition weeks before the vote. Analysts were bemused that the chancellor and the prime minister had fired all their shots before most people had woken up to the fact that a referendum was even taking place.
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