George Osborne's hard choices will only hurt the young and poor | Nick Cohen

As his speech last week made clear, George Osborne is threatening to transform Britain into a country governed for the needs of the few George Osborne spoke last Monday before an audience that must have taken his aides weeks to find: the workers and managers of a manufacturing firm, which had ignored Britain's £9.4bn trade deficit and succeeded in becoming a thriving exporter of car components