Should you lend money to Jeremy Hunt?

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Should you lend money to Jeremy Hunt?

The most overcooked canard in political discourse is “taxpayers’ money”. The public purse stopped being your money at the point at which you were taxed; it’s the government’s money now. You can’t have it back and it will be spent on things you don’t like, such as an overpriced wooden lectern, or a nuclear weapon, or Grant Shapps. That said, there is one way to get some of it back, because very large amounts of this money – more than £100bn of it…