Ex-chancellor George Osborne appointed chair of British Museum

Board of trustees chooses man behind austerity policies that brought swingeing cuts to arts and museums

George Osborne, the former chancellor who presided over swingeing austerity cuts to England’s arts and museums budgets, is to be the new chair of the British Museum.

The museum announced on Thursday that Osborne would join its board of trustees in September and succeed the former Financial Times editor Sir Richard Lambert as chair in October.

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