It is not often that an ex-Tory Chancellor gets compared by a former Cabinet colleague to Gordon Gekko. But that was how Iain Duncan Smith reportedly described George Osborne taking a sixth well-paid job last week, after putting himself forward to be editor of the Evening Standard.
I suspect that Wall Street was among the ambitious (and highly personable, I should add) young Osborne’s favourite films when growing up. He has collected jobs in the past year since being sacked like Gekko collected companies.
