In a withering attack on Theresa May who sacked him as chancellor on her arrival in Downing Street last year, Mr Osborne said it was simply a question of how long she is going to remain on death row.
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heresa May and her husband Philip arrive at St Andrew’s Church in Sonning, Berkshire He predicted she could be out of office as early as the middle of next week.
His criticism came as the PM, badly weakened by the loss of her majority in the election, moved to shore up her precarious position.
However, this was dealt an early blow after Downing Street mistakenly announcing a deal had been reached with the Democratic Unionists to prop up Mrs May’s minority Tory government.
Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn, buoyed by Labour’s showing at the polls, said it was quite possible there would be another election this year and that his party was ready to fight.
George Osborne was scathing of his former Cabinet colleague Earlier, Mr Osborne, who is now editor of the London Evening Standard, told the same programme: Theresa May is dead woman walking. It is just how long she is going to remain on death row.
I think we will know very shortly. We could easily get to the middle of next week and it all collapses for her.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said he and other senior colleagues had told the PM she would need to adopt a more collective approach after losing her seeing her Commons majority.
Mr Fallon told Marr: “Clearly a minority government requires a different approach.
We have already seen some changes in personnel in Downing Street. I welcome that.
We are going to see I hope more collective decision-making in Cabinet. I and other senior colleagues have made that clear to her.
And I think you will also see that she will want to work much more closely with the parliamentary party, both in the conduct of business and in the development of policies.