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Indeed, but when the question is framed as: 'Why were you not interested in providing support to the north while in power for the last ten years, despite all the very obvious deprivation'? Then it is hard to answer 'we only care about people when they might vote for us' even when everyone knows...

Indeed. There is definitely a sense of this budget serving a politcal purpose (stealing Labour's clothes on spending, while keeping both wealthy donors/supporters and new 'red wall' voters happy) far more than any long term economic plan. The overall effect of the fiscal measures outlined will...

Large chunk of 'additional' spending is just replacing what we would have had back from the EU (so it's a recycling job) The rest funded from more borrowing. This is good, but I await the wailing and gnashing of teeth from those that insisted there was no magic money tree, austerity was a...