“I said to George [Osborne] jokingly that when you’re prime minister one day I’ll
have all the dirty goods on you, and he laughed and took a big fat line of cocaine,” says Natalie Rowe, a former madam of the Black Beauties escort agency, in an interview with ABC’s PM
programme. She adds, “It’s been said in the newspapers that he was at university. He wasn’t. At the time he was working for [former Tory leader now foreign secretary] William Hague…I
remember that vividly because he called William Hague insipid.”
This is not the first time that Rowe has made these allegations against Osborne, as the above picture attests. The chancellor has always vehemently denied her claims and at no point have they been substantiated.The latest incarnation of the story, predictably, relates to phone hacking. ABC reports:
‘After some negotiation, Ms Rowe decided to sell her story [in October 2005] to The Sunday Mirror.
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