Peter Hoskin

Osborne delivers a clear Tory message

This from George Osborne, speaking on the Beeb just now:

“Spending restraint under Conservatives, tax rises under Labour”

This bluntly effective message – that Brown’s tax-cuts-now translate to tax-rises-in-future – is perhaps that best chance the Tories have to set the economic narrative.

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