, he disinterred some bits of Liz Truss’s growth agenda, while trying to resurrect the Tories’ reputation for quiet competence.
Karl Marx famously claimed “property is theft”, yet in many ways all politics is theft. And Hunt set about ruthlessly nicking all the bits of policy he and Rishi Sunak think they need to get Britain out of its downturn – and the Conservatives out ofThe Chancellor lifted not only Liz Truss’s plans for investment zones and childcare ratios, but also Keir Starmer’s plans for an extended energy guarantee, a windfall tax, the scrapping of sickness work assessments and skills training for over-50s.
It was no surprise he trumpeted an extra 170,000 fewer people out of work compared to the Autumn forecast, plus OBR estimates that the Government will be “on track” to halve inflation, get debt falling and grow the economy. The power of political pilfering from your critics’ policies is undermined if the public feel that overall, this Government has been picking their pockets for years. With workers suffering the longest and deepest pay squeeze for 200 years , the long term hit to earnings has left many feeling short changed.
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