This column is written a week in advance, so given the state of politics at the moment, we may still have the same chancellor as we did or not. It used to be that a week in politics could be a long time, now it is almost hour by hour...
Central Government has got a tough gig financially at the moment, struggling with the same issues we are all struggling with: how to make the square peg fit in the round hole of setting financial budgets.
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