{"id":2294,"date":"2024-07-29T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/chris-mason-politics-roars-back-in-blame-game-over-funding\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T13:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T13:21:41","slug":"chris-mason-politics-roars-back-in-blame-game-over-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/chris-mason-politics-roars-back-in-blame-game-over-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Mason: Politics roars back in blame game over funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Mason: Politics roars back in blame game over funding<\/p>\n

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    For the first time since the general election, party politics will come roaring back at Westminster on Monday.<\/b><\/p>\n

    Yes, there was a bit of it at the State Opening of Parliament a few weeks back, but ceremony and civility took centre stage then really.<\/p>\n

    I don\u2019t expect much of either later.<\/p>\n

    When the chancellor gets to her feet in the House of Commons this afternoon, she will claim a whole graveyard\u2019s worth of political skeletons have been crashing out of every cupboard in Whitehall since Labour won the election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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    For Rachel Reeves, it won\u2019t be “things can only get better” as Labour\u2019s victory anthem in 1997 claimed, but “it turns out things are a whole lot worse” or words to that effect.<\/p>\n

    There are two big questions: the extent to which this claim is believable and why the government is doing this now. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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