What happens if you mix red with blue - you get purple - and that just happened to be the colour worn by most of the Labour front budget during the budget.
Is it too much to suggest that they were trying to show their red labour roots mixed with a bit of true blue Tory prudence? The Labour party looked quite smug, but then again they knew what was coming, while the Conservatives also looked quite cocky - for a while, until they the Belize word was mentioned. Gordon Brown had teased them in the preamble debate before the budget speech by mentioning Belize's most famous ‘resident', Michael Ashcroft. The Conservatives probably hoped it would the last time they heard his name today, but they didn't know the chancellor had something in his...
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