Here is a question many taxpayers must be asking themselves: have you ever seen Rishi Sunak and Gordon Brown in the same room? Although the Sage of Cowdenbeath has been well to the fore in attacking the chancellor’s Spring statement, that high-profile hostility cannot obscure the ominous congruence between the careers of the past and current chancellor.
Years of budget deficits have bloated the government’s debt pile
All developed economies face the same problem: how to manage the ever-rising tide of welfare and medical spending.