With every Budget, the early Cameron emphasis on greenery and General
Well Being not Gross Domestic Product seems a more distant memory. Today’s Budget showed that, to Osborne at least, growth now trumps these more abstract concerns.
So, we saw an announcement that the planning rules would come into force pretty much as planned from next Tuesday.

All that matters now is growth

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