Is there more to Alistair Darling than meets the eye?

摘要

Lord Howie looks to history to put the media assault on the latest Budget into context and wonders whether the Chancellor might actually have his sums right. Writing in the last week of March, the thought uppermost in my mind, apart from the forthcoming General Election, is Alistair Darling's recent budget Of course, as has been pointed out, the two are closely related. Without the near approach of an appeal to the country, the budget might have been somewhat different. Some of the inevitable pain to come would have been included instead of being left to later consideration. In that respect, the budget has been referred to by its critics as a political one, rather than an economic one.