Conservative chancellors come in many different shapes and forms, but the incumbent, Jeremy Hunt, is turning out to be one of the better incarnations – solid, middle of the road, and with many of the right ideas about how to improve the country’s, at-present, dismal growth potential.
The Chancellor has followed in the footsteps of his great tax cutting predecessor, Nigel Lawson, who set out to cancel a tax in each of his budgets, and did so.