George Osborne's Tatton brag leaves him out of the loop

The Chancellor of the Exchequer set out his vision for a brighter Britain in his conference speech today, explaining that the party are laying the groundwork for a strong economy in the future. To show his commitment to doing just that, the MP for Tatton opted to use an example that proves how he puts the country above all else, even his wealthy constituents:

‘I am very lucky to represent a constituency just a dozen miles to the south of here full of pretty villages and market towns in the flat and lush Cheshire plain. The great writer Elizabeth Gaskell used to live there, and she drew on her life in nineteenth century Knutsford to write her most famous book.

In the novel, Cranford, the town campaigns to stop the new railway coming through. And today, there are some people in my constituency who want to stop our new high-speed railway.’