‘Osborne appears to have achieved the miraculous. He has combined budgetary overspending with a reduction in cost of the debt burden'

"The boom in the output of the financial sector was a boom in productivity. This has been stopped in its tracks by bureaucracy and regulation."

"Why have international investors and domestic savings institutions not sold off British government debt in anger at the slow progress on budgetary restraint?"

'The Great Recession of 2008 knocked many assumptions but it knocked the assumptions of the young worst of all'