The post-Budget headlines were bad.
This was certainly not on Lynton Crosby's post-budget grid.
– he is so scrambled by the cumulative post-Budget contempt that he pirouettes in a flash.
Post-budget, Cameron's Tories have been campaigning earnestly on the issue of rising living costs.
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It is the post-Budget custom best summed up as second day, second thoughts.
But it is widely seen as the first high-profile casualty of the post-budget Whitehall spending squeeze.
On balance, the Conservatives have slightly more reason than Labour to be pleased by our post-budget polls.
As far as George Osborne is concerned, making sense of this welter of post-budget news is simple.
But his government has been going through weeks of post-budget "omnishambles" and he must make sure the label doesn't stick.
The post-Budget "omnishambles" shows there is something missing at the heart of the government machine – an early warning system to spot the nasties before they become public.
