Wednesday, 13 July 2016

The Cameron and Osborne era comes to an end

David Cameron and George Osborne's close alliance at the top of the Conservative Party - and government - comes to an end today, as the prime minister

prepares to leave office.

Mr Osborne - pictured above leaving Number 11 - ran Mr Cameron's successful Tory leadership campaign in 2005. He was made his shadow chancellor in May that year, becoming chancellor when the Conservatives went into government in 2010.

The fate of Mr Osborne in Mrs May's upcoming reshuffle is not yet known. There are suggestions that Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond could be made chancellor, and given the keys to Number 11. Suggestions, too, that Mr Osborne could take over as foreign secretary. Only time will tell.

But today will be their last day together in the upper echelons of government.