Un-Labour UK budget repairs damage, but lacks vision

“Un-Labour UK budget repairs damage, but lacks vision”

It was trailed as a “landmark” UK budget , historic, one that would put down a marker for Andy Burnham’s government, setting it on a noticeably different course from its predecessor. In the end, John Healey’s first address as Chancellor was anything but. Well before the end, the sense of it being a damp squib set in. Partly as well, it was Mr Healey’s soft, measured tone. This is not a keeper of the nation’s financial purse who is given to wild bursts of energy and excitement. He is as steady…