The Cabinet met this morning to discuss the Budget, with the Chancellor telling ministers that today the Conservatives will ‘set out the next stage in a plan that is working’ and deliver a ‘truly national recovery’, a reiteration of the comments he’s already posted on Twitter.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman told journalists that ‘there was an exchange of views from around the table’ and that the Budget was greeted ‘in the traditional manner’ by those present.
He refused, though, to clarify what the ‘traditional manner’ is. Is it popping the cork of your own individual magnum of champagne in unison? Is it singing your school hymn, performing the Hakka, holding a ceremonial beating of Nick Clegg, drinking a pint to celebrate forthcoming measures on the beer tax or holding a little disco around the coffin-shaped table? Traditionally ministers bang the Cabinet table when they are celebrating good news, so we can only assume that it was this.
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