Introduction

While the UK's bonkers pre-election 'tax and spend' debate continues the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has discovered he has more money to spend than he had expected.

Steve Richards considers all this plus the need to avoid being perceived as punitive at the start of the UK's tentative green revolution.

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