The Standard’s keen-eyed Paul Waugh has already flagged it up, but it’s still worth highlighting Frank Field’s assessment of the PBR in his latest blog post. Even coming from Labour’s insurrectionist-in-chief, some of the remarks are surprisingly cutting. Take this passage, for instance:
“Will the package work? I dearly hope so, but I doubt it. It is not just the size of the injection of demand that troubles me. It is also the means by which that increased demand is being delivered to consumers.
At the end of yesterday’s emergency Budget I was left with a flat feeling in that the Chancellor’s presentation hardly enthused backbenchers, let alone consumers. Only part of the reason for this feeling was that most of the package had already been spun over the previous few days (whatever happened to that pledge of abolishing spin?).
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