Labour is obsessed with not being seen as a ‘tax and spend’ party, but its economic caution means social issues are dominating its agenda and it risks falling into another trap with the election little more than a year away
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Two weeks out from the Budget, it's a good time to remember what is the means of economic management and what are the true ends
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The Public Finance Act is one of those boring statutes which shapes the nation’s wellbeing.
Read MoreThe Budget whodunnit?
Two weeks out, Labour is positioning its first budget as a noble quest story in which it saves the nation from under-funding whilst also being super-responsible. But with questions about how it will try match its spending to its rhetoric, it feels more like a plot-twisting mystery
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