The 2024 no-frills Budget

• Bryce Edwards writes – 

Today’s anti-government protests around the country will not be convinced by Nicola Willis’s budget. She has announced exactly what critics were expecting—a right-wing Budget containing tax cuts and further cuts to government programmes.

Yet the Budget is far from being the “neoliberal” or radical rightwing Budget that leftwing critics might have feared. Instead, it is positioned to win over the support of working people, and cleverly comes across as quite moderate.