James Forsyth James Forsyth

Brown has stolen the next four Tory budgets. We’ll be paying off his debt for a generation

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

issue 20 March 2010

James Forsyth reviews the week in politics

Alistair Darling will stand at the Dispatch box on Wednesday and say that there is a plan to halve the Budget deficit in the next four years. His quiet delivery and demeanour of an Edinburgh lawyer will make this sound like a reassuring return to fiscal sanity.

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