Budget 2011 Blog: Soundbites offer hope of jam tomorrow

IN Opposition, George Osborne mocked the triumphalist approach of Labour Chancellors but today, freed from the obligation to announce swathes of cuts in public spending as he was forced to do in his first Budget, the current occupier of Number 11 could not resist some bragging of his own.

The soundbites were all there, from a “Budget for making things, not making things up” to his closing rallying cry for a Britain “carried aloft by the march of the makers”. Even his fellow Coalition MPs could be seen ... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...