After George Osborne's Budget triumph, if the going gets rocky for the Prime Minister in the months ahead — in his attempts to re-negotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership, for example — the clamour
from the Tory back benches for Mr Osborne to move next door
from No. 11 to No. 10 Downing Street earlier than Mr Cameron would like will grow among those
backbenchers who
cheered his Budget wildly and waved their order papers in a frenzy.
The chancellor is a few days away
from his 2013 Budget speech aiming to helping to help the economy, to
cheer his
backbenchers and win over potential voters.