Video: Streetdance and toy trains - The real Osborne?

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This video will show the chancellor as you have never seen him before.

A spoof series of videos created by Hoot Comedy for the World Development Movement shows George Osborne attempting to topple Boris Johnson as the next Conservative leader, failing to understand the basics of economic policy, and learning a bit of body-popping to score points with the electorate. The 14-part series, starring Rufus Jones, is part of a campaign by the World Development Movement to pressure the chancellor to tackle food speculation, which it claims drives up the price of food worldwide and leaves millions of people hungry and impoverished. The group believes Osborne shoul...

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