Local history lesson from Chancellor

Chancellor George Osborne showed his knowledge of local history when he attended a lunch on Thursday.

Organised by UK Trade and Investment, the celebratory lunch, for its North West Export Champions, was held at the Bells of Peover pub, just off Middlewich Road in the heart of Mr Osborne’s Tatton constituency.

Mr Osborne began by stating: “It is very approriate that I should be in this room telling you all to invade France and Germany.”

As few puzzled looks went around the room as guests wondered whether the Chancellor was unveiling a very radical policy shift on Europe to combat the rise of UKIP, until he explained that the lunch was being staged in the same room that World War II American army supremos Generals Eisenhower and Patton had plotted D-Day some 70 years ago.

Both generals enjoyed visiting the pub as it was a short trip from Peover Hall, where US forces were billeted in the war.