Big day for Ed Miliband yesterday: Keir Starmer’s case of coronavirus meant that he had to fill in for the Labour leader at PMQs, and then he got to deliver the Budget afterwards.
OK, I exaggerate – but you get the point. Rishi Sunak’s budget was much more expansive than expected, as he opted to use almost all of the additional wriggle room that the Office for Budget Responsibility’s improved growth figures created within his fiscal rules to increase departmental spending. And to increase it in real terms too.
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