during osborne's time as chancellor of the exchequer he regularly pledged treasury money to "standard" charitable campaigns. in september 2015, the newspaper ranked osborne in joint-first place on its annual 'progress 1000' list of the most influential people in london. it also said that, as chancellor, osborne failed to tackle the advantageous tax status for so-called "non-doms" (foreign wealthy people). lebedev's paper strongly supported the conservative party in the 2015 general election and the conservatives' candidate zac goldsmith in the 2016 london mayoral election.