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Did Osborne hoodwink Channel 4 News over Hammersmith and Fulham?

Channel 4 News aired a piece after George Osborne’s speech last week in which he claimed that to understand how a Conservative government would behave you need only to look at Councils like Hammersmith and Fulham.

It’s therefore very odd that the Tories advanced the new Westfield shopping centre and the new Shepherds Bush library (delivered at no cost to the tax payer) as the two things that best demonstrated why Osborne’s right to pick Hammersmith and Fulham.

Odd? That’s because both of those achievements were negotiated by the last Labour administration! You’d think the Tories could have come up with something that they’d actually done, and so presumably did Channel 4 News who were seemingly hoodwinked into broadcasting these examples as proof of Tory efficiency and their commitment to value.

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