Labour and the budget: waiting for an alternative

Ed Miliband will be painfully aware of is that Labour has failed to win the argument that it has a better alternative The hardest job on budget day is commonly held to be that of leader of the opposition. With scant time, he has to make sense of a raft of projections and measures and numbers that rattle past faster than a Pendolino. What's more, Ed Miliband will have to master the Red Book just a couple of days after staying up into the early hours to negotiate the Leveson vote. Whatever your...