George spent much of the weekend being interviewed by the BBC about his opinions on the resignations of Andy Coulson and Alan Johnson. Appearing on Radio 4's PM programme, BBC television's News 24 channel and Stephen Nolan's BBC Radio 5 live evening show, George said "I think it is admirable of David Cameron to say "let's give people a second chance", ... politicians shouldn't make decisions based on short-term headlines".
Saturday saw George on BBC Radio 4's 'Week at Westminster' quizzed on the announcement that Ed Balls has been given the shadow-treasury brief in the wake of Alan Johnson's resignation. George expressed his concern that the announement represented "a complete failure by the Labour party to learn the lessons of the past - they've now got all the key people around Ed Milliband being the same ones who got us into this mess in the first place. Ed Balls - the key architect of the current crisis - being the key example of this". In the same programme the Liberal Democrat peer and Treasury spokesman, Lord Oakshott, voiced his worries about Mr Balls' economic strategy, describnig him as a "debt-junkie".