Budget 2014: Comment

THIS was a Chancellor in the ascendancy.
 
Standing at the despatch box beside a relaxed Prime Minister, George Osborne basked in the glow of warming growth figures and a shrinking deficit as he outlined his fifth Budget.
 
Gone was the furrowed brow of earlier years as his measures to deal with Britain's wobbly economy were questioned as they took time to work.
 
So comfortable was he, that he was even able to take a few verbal pot shots at the Two Eds on the benches opposite.

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