11 APRIL 1958, Page 17

i3ppectator

APRIL 13, 1833

A GREAT deal of secrecy is affected at the Treasury in regard to the Budget. Why? Because the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself has no plan, and what he knows not he cannot communicate. Whatever he may eventually ptopose, he will have taken upon trust or have arrived at by chance; and if it should happen to be something good, he will surrender it upon the first show of interested hostility.