The Rhetorical Transformation of the Autumn Statement

We've gone from a situation in less than two months of a conservative chancellor and prime minister telling us that everything that was essential is no longer essential or vice versa. I think the comparative reference point is Black Wednesday when the pound crashed out of the exchange rate mechanism, John Major's the prime minister. And although they reverse course, they never recover economic credibility. The Tories are going to go into the election with the economy on the floor and people's living standards collapsing. But there were also these references to Nigel Lawson a couple of times in the budget, which soaps, you were probably, I was in short trousers at primary school. You know, we have to do things with British values