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