The Chancellor's "scene-setter" speech was hopeless

A hopeful and prosperous future is possible, but not like this.

The future is grim under big government.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves, this morning, once again blamed everyone else for the choices she faces without confronting the truth: big government got us into this mess, and it won’t get us out. Nigel Farage, this week, abandoned big tax cuts while making some necessary policy pledges: he is facing up to reality, but he did not say what he will do about the welfare state now entering into chronic default.

To create a hopeful and prosperous future, we need a return to growth, and we know how to get it: spending cuts and a massive change of direction away from managerialism by the state. The alternative is disaster.

Britain's Fiscal Reckoning: The Inevitability of Spending Cuts

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