Every autumn now runs according to the same script. The leaks begin in July. Ministers give interviews about “concerns” they’ve been having. Backbenchers discover, on cue, that some cohort of voters has been treated “unfairly.” By October, a package is unveiled with the theatrical solemnity of a state funeral, and the political class spends the following fortnight explaining, with visible self-satisfaction, just how much they have done for us.
Budget 2027 is shaping up to be no different, and the shape it is taking tells you almost everything you need to know about how this government actually thinks about the relationship between the state and the citizen.
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