Tuesday 30 June 2020

Deal Us In

If you still believed in austerity, then you could always vote Labour. Let's see how many people will.

Or there are the Liberal Democrats, who spent five years in the Coalition that implemented austerity because they were in it. Such implementation has ceased since the Lib Dems stopped being in government. It is incontrovertible that it was the Conservative Party that was the moderating influence in the Coalition.

No, of course Boris Johnson's New Deal does not go anywhere near far enough. And yes, there will be trouble from sections of his own party. But it is a start, and it is a start that could not have been made by any of his predecessors since the Budget of December 1976. The Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with that Budget. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.

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