SIR - George Osborne certainly wouldn’t win the title of ‘Politician of the Year’ but he might just be in with a chance of ‘Most Brazen Politician of the Year’!

With all his MP’s duties to perform in London and in his northern constituency of Tatton, isn’t it rather ‘pushing it,’ not only agreeing to work in the States one day a week for an American fund manager, but most recently, taking on the editorship of the Evening Standard?

Of course, the extra £650k Mr Osborne will earn from the US firm plus the added remuneration from the London paper must have been very tempting for the millionaire.

But shouldn’t financially-stretched members of the public be forgiven for thinking an MP’s ‘lot’ is not exactly an unhappy one?

It is hardly likely to make them feel MPs are deserving of index-linked pensions and the recent pay increases.

Truth to tell, most MPs work very hard and take their duties of office seriously.

A lot concentrate on their parliamentary and constituency duties and don’t have second or third jobs.

But, shouldn’t this be the rule, rather than the exception?

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose