Big moment for coalition as Lib Dems question Plan A

George Osborne

This morning’s papers are not going to make comfortable reading for George Osborne (not the first time we’ve said that recently…).

The Guardian has splashed on a story in the New Statesman that several of the 20 economists who signed a letter in 2010 backing the Osborne deficit reduction strategy had now changed their minds. The story was picked up in other papers too.

But of greater political significance is the piece I wrote in this morning’s FT about how the first fissures are starting to show in the joint coalition commitment to Plan A. Three Lib Dem MPs went on the record to say they wanted the chancellor to be more flexible with his � spending plans, and allow the deficit reduction targets to slide in order to pay for a short-term stimulus.

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Source: http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2012/08/big-moment-for-coalition-as-lib-dems-question-plan-a/

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