Patrick Wintour, the diplomatic editor at The Guardian, another British daily, whose father was editor of The Evening
Standard, wrote: “My recollection is my father never saw editing the London Evening Standard as a part-time job.”
The former finance minister has dismissed those concerns, however, arguing
that because The Evening Standard is edited in the morning and Parliament votes in the afternoon, there was no problem.
Mr. Osborne, who was long mentioned as a potential successor to David Cameron as prime minister
and who is thought to still have ambitions to lead Britain one day, was announced on Friday as the new editor of The Evening Standard, a London weekday newspaper that is among the country’s most read.
Evgeny Lebedev, who owns The Evening Standard, described Mr. Osborne as a person of “huge political achievement, and economic and cultural authority.”
He added that the politician’s viewpoint — “liberal on social issues
and pragmatic on economic ones” — closely matched that of The Evening Standard’s readers.
George Osborne, Ex-Finance Chief of U. K., to Become Editor of Evening Standard -
By AMIE TSANGMARCH 17, 2017
LONDON — Britain is no stranger to its leading figures moving between journalism and politics.
“Growing up as a Londoner, I’ve always known that the Evening Standard is an institution
that plays a huge part in the life of the city and its people,” Mr. Osborne said in a statement published by the newspaper.