Fiscally constrained and with the blond menace of City Hall waiting in the wings,the chancellor did what he always did – kept a smooth headFrom flood defences to Crossrail 2, corporation tax cuts to provision for people with disabilities, or the risks of Brexit to £20m for Hull: this was a chancellor roaming the political landscape with undiminished swagger and not a tip of apology.
No amount of verbiage could disguise his failure to meet his own debt targets or the consequent disappointment of the divided Tory tribe. But this was a gutsy performance from a politician in the fight of his life – fiscally constrained and politically challenged by the blond menace of City Hall.
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Source: theguardian.com