Once more unto the breach

摘要

The political battle of the budget has been waged ferociously since George Osborne, Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, pledged on June 22nd to wipe out Britain's huge structural deficit over five years. It is billed as the toughest budget in a generation, with the longest, deepest spending cuts since the second world war. Some of the Tories' Liberal Democrat coalition partners are no less appalled than their Labour opponents.