11 June 2025, 16:43

By Callum Price

If you wanted to hear the details about what the Government's vision for getting the economy back on track is and where its priorities lie in spending taxpayers’ money, listening to the Chancellor’s speech today would have been a waste of your time.

What we got instead was a list of spending promises with a host of numbers that, without context, mean very little.

It's great for the fine people of Kirkaldy that there is some money for their high street, but why on Earth is that making it into what is one of the most significant speeches of the parliament?

The answer: because our government and our politicians are hooked on the spending drug.

The big opening scene-setter for the Chancellor’s........

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