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BUMBLING Lib Dem Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander stunned onlookers yesterday as he presented an “alternative Budget” from an empty yellow suitcase in the Commons chamber.
The bizarre stunt came as Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls proclaimed that George Osborne had “strutted his final hour upon the stage.”
Only 15 other Lib Dems showed up to see their clueless colleague lay into the Chancellor he had smugly posed for snaps with the day before.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT
