One of the two men George Osborne says are his key advisers on the economic framework he wants to put in place is Alan Budd. He was chief economic adviser at the Treasury when Britain was in deep recession in the early 1990s, including before and during Black Wednesday, when sterling crashed out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), destroying the Government’s then economic policy and costing over £3 billion.
Let’s hope he’s learnt a thing or two 🙂
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Budd was an arch-monetarist, which is ominous. Who is the other adviser?
Will that be the ERM that all the major parties supported at the time?
Budd was against it, was he not?
Alan is a serious economist, the sort of person our party would be delighted to parade around! The post-ERM period was also the time in which Britain became serious about inflation targetting, and for we know Budd may well have proposed making the Bank of E independent in this era – we know that the Tories didn’t like the idea, but HMT certainly seemed to have some plans on how to do it as soon as Labour got in.