When Gordon Brown has nightmares, what does he see? I suspect it’s something pretty close to Ken Cox’s brilliant cartoon to accompany my cover piece in this week’s Spectator. It shows Cameron and Osborne in their Bullingdon Club outfits jostling Brown, taking a leg each, until borrowed cash is falling out of his pockets. Like all confidence tricksters, Brown will live in fear of being rumbled, having gotten away with so much for so long so far. And I think that – after an agonising period of faffing about – Cameron and Osborne are finally on his case . There are five reasons why the PBR plays into Tory hands. Here they are:
1. Brown’s so-called splurge is a more of a squirt. Cutting VAT to 15% won’t make a blind bit of difference to the violent trajectory of the recession and this will be painfully obvious by Easter.
2.
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