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Good and bad politics: the Budget against a backdrop of Greek chaos

9 July 2015

1:00 PM

9 July 2015

1:00 PM

George Osborne’s Budget was good politics: not so much in terms of tactical point-scoring, though there was plenty, but in terms of striving for big objectives of fiscal rectitude and wider prosperity by incentivising sensible economic behaviour and discouraging casual reliance on the state: ‘a country that backs those that work hard and do the right thing’, in David Cameron’s phrase.

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