Letter to the Chancellor

 

'Dear Gordon

 

Well this must be your last Budget my old friend before you move next door. So apart from telling you what you should do in your Budget (sorry I meant advising you — it's so easy to drop into the old familiarities after almost ten years of providing you with first-class gratuitous advice) I think I should also add some golden rules for your sojourn at No 10. I personally will be sad to see you move on as you have so assiduously respected my advice in the past even if you have not been able to persuade the No...