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Steve Barclay is MP for North East Cambridgeshire and sits on the Public Accounts CommitteeIn an age where enhancement is fast becoming the norm, could it be the Paralympian, with blades for legs, who most truly represents sports future? Discuss. Like many Wellcome exhibitions, Superhuman is perfect raw material for seminars and sixth-form focus groups.

A spokeswoman for Oxford said that while the rise in unemployed Oxford students was largely down to a drop in the numbers choosing to go into postgraduate study, possibly as a result of the financial climate.

But this daily diversion of precious time and energy is not the only problem. Even more disturbing is the conflict of interest. Chancellors of the Exchequer should have one over-riding purpose: the safeguarding of the national finances. But Osborne also gives high-level political counsel to the Prime Minister. He cannot perform both of these roles with integrity because they are completely contradictory. Put simply, prime ministers like to spend, while it is the job of chancellors to save. Indeed, it is this constitutional duty to keep the national finances intact which explains why the greatest chancellors have always enjoyed edgy and uncomfortable relationships with Downing Street.