George Osborne reveals hes considering abandoning the Tories to vote Lib Dem

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GEORGE Osborne risked sparking fury last night by revealing he is thinking about voting Lib Dem.

The former Tory chancellor astonishingly announced he could break with his party and back Conservative defector Sam Gyimah on December 12.

Former Tory chancellor George Osborne says he is considering voting Lib Dem on December 12, although ‘old habits die hard’

And he slammed Boris Johnson for booting Tory moderate MPs out of the party after they delayed Brexit.

Mr Osborne, who now edits The Evening Standard newspaper, lives in the key marginal seat of Kensington.

Writing in The Spectator, he said: The Lib Dem candidate is Sam Gyimah, who sat in meetings with me in Downing Street every day when he was a Tory MP and [David Camerons] parliamentary private secretary.

I like Sam. Hes bright and sensible. So do I vote for him, or for the party that however wayward its become gave me incredible opportunities for 20 years?

Well see, but old habits die hard.

Mr Osborne said he would vote for newly independent David Gauke if he lived in his constituency of South west Hertfordshire

Mr Gauke was his right-hand man at the Treasury and was in the Tory cabinet until July this year.

And Mr Osborne recalled uncorking the Gauke when the Treasury had tricky policy decisions to make.

He wrote: If I were one of the good people of Chorleywood, Id vote to keep the Gauke uncorked.

Mr Gauke was one of 21 Tory MPs kicked out the parliamentary party by Bojo after voting to delay Brexit.

Mr Osborne wants to back Conservative defector Sam Gyimah as he believes he is ‘bright and sensible’