He was so angry about being ejected from the Treasury by Theresa May that he later claimed he would not rest until he saw the Prime Minister “chopped up in bags with my freezer.”

Now with Mrs May’s premiership in tatters and having aligned himself with the most likely candidate to succeed her, could George Osborne be warming to the idea of a return to frontline politics?

Speculation is swirling around Westminster that the Evening Standard editor is “toying” with the idea of running as an MP again following his fall from grace in 2016 after six years as Chancellor.

The marginal seat of Kensington in West London is being touted as a potential route back into parliament, with rumours abound that David Cameron’s former right hand man is eyeing up a comeback. Labour MP Emma Dent Coad is the current incumbent on a miniscule majority of 20.

According to one Tory MP: “Talk of George wanting to stand in Kensington has been doing the rounds for the past six weeks. He’s hungry to get back into politics. I think he thinks that if he hadn’t stood down before the 2017 election could have been prime minister by now.”