Chancellor has delivered a budget from deep within Labour’s DNA

Ignore the manifesto, this is a budget from deep within Labour's DNA. It raised taxes on ordinary people a lot, and spent money on better public services, including a stronger welfare system. Abolishing the two-child benefit limit is the most cost-efficient way to take children out of poverty - and far more effective than last year’s expensive gimmicks, such as giving free school meals to richer children.

- Tim Leunig

Just as the Tories will typically hold taxes down, and allow the NHS to become a bit worse, so Labour will make the opposite choice. The great thing about a democracy is that we, the people, get to choose, and what we expect to happen does happen, at least give or take.