Budget 2010: Ray Boulger's blog

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One of the opening comments in George Osborne's Budget speech was that he was "not going to hide hard choices from the British people or bury them in the small print of the Budget documents".

He added: "You're going to hear them straight from me, here in this speech." This was a hugely welcome change from the policy introduced and regularly followed by Gordon Brown, whose budget speeches almost ceased to be worth listening to because so much of the meat, at least the nasty bits, was left out, the budget numbers were reeled off in an unintelligible way and many of the figures he announced involved double or triple counting. The impression gained while listening to Osborne's speech was that he was living up to his opening promise and this was confirmed by a subsequent checki...

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