Richard Digard

Losing £42m. on bungled IT projects isn’t just careless – it’s close to criminal for a cash-strapped island facing a cost of living crisis and demands for taxpayers to give even more of their scarce cash to a profligate government. So who, actually, is to blame?

Yes, it is odd that a budget that does so little can be so comprehensively criticised. But that’s because it has only one purpose – to win time to show that government can do things differently. This is how...