Who really runs this country now ?

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#Ready4Rishi & #Hunt call for tax increases and spending cuts which risk causing a spiralling recession plus worse 'austerity' than under Cameron & Osborne is all driven by an entirely arbitrary figure conjured up by the #OBR namely the £60 Bn 'black hole'

But ..
This gives the entirely false impression that there is some objectively measurable deficit in the public accounts which needs to be filled, resembling an overdraft on a personal bank account !

What matters is the debt/GDP ratio and #UK has the 2nd lowest in G7 after Germany

...
The OBR actually calculates the 'black hole' against an arbitrary target set by Chancellors ...

... so Hunt/Sunak could just adjust the fiscal rules, the most recent of which were set by George Osborne, who himself changed them from what was set by Gordon Brown !

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will be interesting to see what questions the German media ask compared to what the UK media ask Boris

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