Chancellor’s SECOND meeting with Osborne
MR Hammond held a second face-to-face meeting with George Osborne in the run-up to a major government announcement on Brexit, it emerged yesterday.
The Chancellor was reported to have met his Treasury predecessor in the Commons before Theresa May’s Florence speech last month.
‘It was late at night in the Commons – I had to do a double take because I didn’t expect to see Philip meeting up with George at all – let alone in Parliament,’ a Tory MP told the Sunday Express.
Mr Hammond was accused at the weekend of plotting with Mr Osborne to thwart Brexit after the Mail revealed the pair had been spotted enjoying a lobster lunch at a Chelsea restaurant. Mr Osborne, who now edits London’s Evening Standard, has frequently criticised the decision to leave the EU.