13 MARCH 1982, page 5

Political Commentary

The end of the Wets? Ferdinand Mount rrhere is a tradition,' Sir Geoffrey's 1 script began, 'that the Budget should be composed rather along the lines of a novel by Proust'.......

In The City

A diet of thin gruel Tony Rudd ir Geoffrey Howe's latest Budget con- tinues his prescription for this country's e conomic ills by a diet of thin gruel and the in termittent......