Fraser Nelson Fraser Nelson

It was bitter, brutal politics: a Budget that launched the election

It was bitter, brutal politics: a Budget that launched the election

issue 25 March 2006

In the last month Gordon Brown has made two personal gestures to David Cameron. The first was to send flowers to congratulate the Conservative leader on the birth of his son, and the second was to fashion his Budget into a no less direct political message saying, ‘I will destroy you.’

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