
Osborne angry about BBC’s Orwellian jibe
The Times, Friday 5th December 2014
George Osborne rounded on a BBC journalist yesterday for suggesting that he was taking Britain back to 1930s deprivation depicted by George Orwell. In a tetchy interview with John Humphrys on Radio 4’s Today programme, he accused the BBC of unfairly inventing an Orwellian vision of a broken Britain because of the swingeing public expenditure cuts that will have to be imposed in the next Parliament.