It was a harder mission today, because it meant overlooking the cuts to tax credits that are going to start hitting the working poor next year.
But he was facing headwinds as Labour continued to highlight the three-year 1% squeeze hitting the working poor, and the Treasury battled to explain the anomalies created by the withdrawal of child benefit.
The distribution would inevitably be highly uneven, disproportionately hitting the working poor, whose living standards could fall by significantly more.
Business school graduates are getting ready to hit the work force — if they are lucky — and it seems that nearly a quarter of them want to work for Google.
But after that year's financial crisis hit, the work was put on hold.
The cuts in tax credits are wrong since they hit the working poor, the strivers that George Osborne lauds.
Nor should it be seen in isolation – it's just one of many cuts to have hit the working poor.
Mr. Hollande also contends that the cuts to government and social programs made in the name of reducing the budget deficit have hit the working class too hard.
Because the one thing we know about the next round of cuts is that they will hit the working poor all over again, like a hammer to the face.
At the weekend, Duncan Smith, a former party leader, launched a withering attack on Osborne, accusing him of safeguarding wealthy, Tory-voting pensioners at the expense of cuts that hit the working poor and disabled.
