Political column – March 9
The OBR forecasts had all turned out to be rubbish, he had a dig about Sir Keir Starmer's weight, and almost everything else was leaked beforehand.
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That's a 10 second guide to Jeremy Hunt's Budget this week, in case you missed it.
You may have seen various "how the Budget affects me" tables, charts, graphs, and so on, but the people wondering most how the Budget affects them are Tory MPs. Will it help save their seats? We know the probable answer to that one, but Jeremy Hunt did at least have a neat dirty political trick by nicking Labour's plan to abolish the non-dom regime, which means Labour now has a black hole in its own budget calculations.
The other big Parliamentary news of the week was the arrival of the politician formerly known as Gorgeous George, although these days he is not considered to be gorgeous but positively dangerous.
George Galloway's election in Rochdale, a faraway place previously famous for being the haunt of Lisa Stansfield, has seen a circling of the wagons in Westminster.
It was an event elevated by Rishi Sunak to the status of a national crisis requiring a Churchillian speech at the lectern outside 10 Downing Street which had the tone of a call for calm in a country on the brink of dissolving into civil war.
Rishi called for people to come together and celebrate the diversity of modern Britain. It was both a plea for unity and a plea to respect our differences.
