Uncomfortable truths on all sides
July 1st, 2010Nobody emerges well from the heated exchanges at PMQ yesterday in the Commons. The Guardian that morning had argued the Treasury estimated that the Budget would cost 1.3m jobs. In the ensuing mele’e Cameron responded to Harriet Harman’s taunt in two ways by claiming that (a) “unemployment will be falling during this Parliament” (words that he may well come to rue) and (b) the rise in unemployment would have been worse under Labour. He is vulnerable on both counts. (more…)
