Aditya Chakrabortty, Seumas Milne, Ellie Mae O'Hagan, Andrew Gimson, John Harris: Budget 2013 - our panel's verdict - Following George Osborne's budget speech, our columnists give their views

"That said, Ed Miliband's bravura demolition of the government spoke a few home truths. "Millions paying more, so the millionaires can pay less", was an easy, but effective, line. Obviously, incomes continue to flatline while the cost of living is rising, something the opposition can use to potent effect. But there is a danger in the current terms of debate: at the moment Labour is too fond of stating the blindingly obvious rather than promising any kind of convincing alternative – and in the public mind, one side's statistics, slightly platitudinous rhetoric and hotchpotch of measures may very well collide with the other side's equivalent, leaving most people stone cold."

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