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George Osborne has told people he wants Theresa May "chopped up in bags in my freezer", a shock profile claims today.

The explosive in-depth look at the former Chancellor reveals the depth of his rivalry with the Prime Minister who sacked him 14 months ago.

Millionaire king of austerity Mr Osborne was touted as the next PM before he was unceremonially ousted by Mrs May last year.

Since then he has become editor of the Evening Standard despite earning more than £1million a year through other work.

As editor he has repeatedly attacked Mrs May's politics and revealed damaging details from their time in office.

Now a profile by Esquire writer Ed Caesar claims: "According to one staffer at the newspaper, Osborne has told more than one person that he will not rest until she "is chopped up in bags in my freezer".

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Mr Osborne has repeatedly attacked Theresa May through the London newspaper's editorial pages.

He claimed that as Home Secretary she vetoed a plan to immediately offer all EU citizens living in Britain the right to stay after Brexit .

He called her a "dead woman walking" as she lost her majority on election night.

And he branded her target to cut net migration below 100,000 "economically illiterate", despite defending it himself when he was in government.

In stark contrast, Esquire claims he sent a memo to his newspaper's opinion writers telling them not to go "OTT" on the Grenfell Tower fire, which many people politicised.

He claimed it was "sloppy journalism" to blame cost-cutting under a Tory council and government.

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"The failure was a massive failure of fire standards over many, many years, and that is a scandal we've talked about," he told Esquire in an interview.

Yet Mr Osborne claimed he wasn't trying to settle personal vendettas.

"Most newspapers are very partisan. I'm sticking it to the Corbynista left and the hard-Brexit right," he told the magazine.

He added: "I'm paid to produce a paper that has attitude and gives voice to people whose voices are not being heard, and I don't really give a damn if some are offended by that."

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The Esquire profile claimed Mr Osborne - a slasher of disability benefits - had cause for reflection after he was booed at the London Paralympics in 2012.

"He doesn't want people to think he's an a**ehole, because he's not an a**ehole," a former aide told the magazine.