The Economist (May 16)
The referendum to stay in the EU is “winnable. Over the next year or so Mr Cameron and his chancellor, George Osborne, can probably extract enough from their partners to persuade Britons to vote to stay in. Yet that victory must be just a first step. The real agenda—the one that matters to Britain’s prosperity and to the EU as a whole—will take longer to bear fruit.”
Tags: Cameron, EU, Osborne, Prosperity, Referendum, Victory
The Times—London (June 28)
George Osborne, the Chancellor who announced sweeping budget cuts, met with 100 British business leaders. Did any of them complain the cuts would threaten the economy? “Quite the opposite: the chief priority of the delegates, who control businesses together worth roughly £1 trillion, was to stick to the Government’s deficit reduction target.” The Times calls this “an emphatic endorsement of the Government’s strategy.”
Tags: Britain, Budget cuts, Economy, Osborne
