Bluff king George? Osborne's budget was a lesson in sleight of hand

Growth forecasts down and no coherent narrative - the chancellor delivered a difficult budget statement. Surely not even Jeremy Corbyn could make it worse?

Sometimes a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. Given the choice George Osborne would rather have stayed in bed watching Jeremy Kyle. Failing that he'd have settled for appearing on Jeremy Kyle. Anything but give a budget statement in which he would have to admit that almost everything he'd said on his previous three budgets had turned out to be either misleading or inaccurate.

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