HE is known as The Submarine, surfacing only at moments of fine weather and sinking beneath the waves when a storm is brewing up top.
After David Cameron recently came in for potshots from Tory right-wingers, complaining about the LibDem tail wagging the Tory dog, George Osborne is now in the line of fire over a Budget presentation even the creators of The Thick of It could barely have imagined. The no-holds-barred aide Malcolm Tucker would have turned the air deepest blue if real life had been turned into fiction.
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