On budget day in 2006, I was sitting on a stool waiting to do a TV pundit hit when Ian Brodie wandered through the Commons lobby and mentioned to me that this would be the first Conservative surplus budget since 1912, when Robert Borden was prime minister.
On budget day in 2006, I was sitting on a stool waiting to do a TV pundit hit when Ian Brodie wandered through the Commons lobby and mentioned to me that this would be the first Conservative surplus budget since 1912, when Robert Borden was prime minister.
Fortunately progress toward fixing the problem Brodie identifed has been rapid.