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It’s official: Osborne is scarier than the devil

GEORGE Osborne was found to be scarier than the devil himself in a Halloween poll conducted by the Star yesterday.

The Chancellor’s policies have proved more ghoulish than expected — 95 per cent of those quizzed admitted being more afraid of Mr Osborne than of Satan.

Over 220 people said they found Mr Osborne terrifying in a non-peer-reviewed Twitter poll conducted for Halloween.

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