For both those reasons, Mr Osborne is right. Spending cuts should hit everybody. The very rich are already paying higher taxes; the poor are going to be hard hit by benefit cuts. The middle classes, however defined, must take their share too, and paying well-off people to look after their children is silly. But the bigger reason to approve of Mr Osborne's plans is that he has started to chisel away at the idea that the state should not just be a safety net but a universal provider.

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