If you missed Jon Snow monstering Alistair Darling, watch here—absolutely brilliant: and totemic. When even Mr Snow isn’t buying, then Darling has been truly rumbled. Darling’s answers were all nonsense, but here are the top Snow questions.
1) Just eight weeks since your last budget, what has changed in the economy to warrant this extraordinary tax shift? Deteriorating economic conditions, says Darling
2) “Suggests a cascade of events that is almost out of control” says Snow. Waffle in response.
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3) “This is a political decision: it is about politics not economics. When I spoke to he PM three weeks ago, he couldn’t engage with the idea that there was a problem with the 10p,” says Snow. We can afford to do it this year, says Darling. [Eh? By going cap in hand to the City to borrow £2.7bn
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