Few of the chancellor’s recent financial statements have passed without a big housing announcement. They follow a familiar pattern. Big numbers are trailed overnight. “Osborne the builder” headlines follow the next morning, accompanied by pictures of the chancellor in a...
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In 2013 the Fabian Commission on Future Spending Choices set out its proposals for the 2015 spending review. The commission identified three trade-offs which any chancellor must face – the balance between the present and the future; between tax and...
While Labour was busy debating who should lead the party over the next parliament, George Osborne and David Cameron moved swiftly to close down political dividing lines and broaden electoral appeal.
Thus the first Conservative budget in almost two decades was...