What hasn’t Mr Osborne ruled out cutting?

By promising no further welfare cuts, the Government has ruled out yet another way of raising some money should it need to. This suggests that the Conservatives will struggle to meet their strict fiscal rules if the OBR’s forecasts deteriorate further or even just to meet their manifesto commitments.

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