Chancellor George Osborne was last week able to pass his new “fiscal charter”, forcing current and future governments to run a budget surplus during “normal times”. But the Chancellor may come to regret tying his hands and it dashes hopes that he may choose to scale up public sector investment in a big way over the coming years.
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