The BBC is right to point out failure on debt. Osborne is wrong to complain about it

George Osborne has in the past year assembled a coterie of advisers to help him become more human, more stylish, thinner and more in touch with voters. But this morning it seemed he’d turned to his Cabinet colleague Iain Duncan Smith for media training before popping up on the Radio 4’s Today programme, as the Chancellor quickly became tetchy when asked the ‘wrong’ sort of questions. He gets angry about 7 minutes in…

Those questions were really meanie-weanie unnecessary questions like: why have you deferred so much of the pain until the next Parliament? Why have you broken all your pledges on deficit reduction? The Chancellor, who should be jolly pleased with the front pages this morning, was less pleased that John Humphrys decided to ask him about the detail of his record so far and the cuts now planned for the next parliament.