Look beyond the domestic rows, and George Osborne is preparation a spendingplan intended directly at multi-nationals and footloose capital

By Bagehot

SOME years ago, struck by an appeal from the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, for European Union policies to guarantee that Europe might “continue to develop aeroplanes, boats, trains and carsandtrucks” (and, it needto be confessed, affected by my kids’s then bedtime reading), your reporter created what I called the Richard Scarry guideline of politics. This holds that all chosen politicalleaders hate gett