FORMER Chancellor George Osborne is set to marry his one-time special advisor in Bruton this weekend.

It has been reported the former Conservative MP, later editor of the Evening Standard newspaper, will tie the knot with former aide Thea Rogers at St Mary’s Church on Saturday.

Osborne, 52, is reported to have bought a £1.6m six-bed property near the town in 2020.

The couple have two children, with 40-year-old Ms Rogers now an executive at Deliveroo.

Mr Osborne was chancellor in his fellow Magdalen College, Oxford, alumni David Cameron’s government between 2010 and 2016.

He oversaw the implementation of the government’s ‘austerity’ programme after the 2008 global financial crash.

In 2017, while still an MP, he was unveiled as the new editor of the Evening Standard newspaper, which had been purchased by Evgeny Lebedev, who was later controversially made a Lord by another of Mr Osborne’s Oxford – and Bullingdon Club – contemporaries, Boris Johnson, reportedly against the advice of security services.