This afternoon the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
Jeremy Hunt detailed his Spring Budget – only three
and a half months since his Autumn Statement – and
the latest in a dwindling list of set-piece milestones
for the Government to try and turn the dial on the
direction of travel ahead of the local elections on
2nd May and the General Election, whenever that
may be.
The context for this Budget is important. This was a
speech from the same man who in only January,
compared himself to Thatcher’s tax-cutting
Chancellor, Nigel Lawson. The same Party who
already this week have engaged in yet another,
public spat over cuts to NI vs cuts to income tax. The
same breed of government who have had nigh on 14
years to stamp their ambitions on our economy, and
the same Party whose popularity currently sits at a
45-year low.
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