Can George Osborne pull it off in his Autumn Statement on 29 November?
The date has been set and officials are hard at work. On 29 November George Osborne will deliver his Autumn Statement.
The Chancellor faces a tough task. A mere statement on the economy will not satisfy his critics or his own party.
There will have to be some meat on the bone.
Moreover it is not just Osborne we will be hearing from at the end of November. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) will deliver a new forecast for the economy and the public finances both of which are potentially rather problematical for the government.
What will the Chancellor say? We know thanks to his Tory conference speech in Manchester in October that...
