Torsten Bell, chief exec of the Resolution Foundation tweeted<\/a>: \u2018British politics in 2020: A Conservative Chancellor outlining plans for a bigger state than under Tony Blair and more borrowing than Gordon Brown\u2019.<\/p>\n This concern about the amount of borrowing announced in the small print of the Budget to fund new commitments rather than higher taxation, was picked up by several political journalists including the political editor of The Guardian<\/em>, Heather Stewart<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u2018Don\u2019t underestimate how big a moment this is – Sunak says he\u2019ll invest an extra \u00a3175bn over next 5 years, which he says OBR calculates will add 0.5pp to GDP growth. The Tories are embracing the benefits of borrowing to invest. You could say Labour has, \u201cwon the argument\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg noted an increase in research and development spending<\/a>: \u2018Very significant increase in govt spending on R + D, up to \u00a322bn – and govt will change the way science is funded too – introducing UK version of ARPA<\/a> – one of long held dreams of PM’s adviser Dominic Cummings\u2019<\/p>\n Vuelio\u2019s sister company Pulsar<\/a> conducted some social media listening in the week leading up to and including the Budget, tracking the Twitter traffic of 50 leading political journalists. Unsurprisingly this showed that Coronavirus dominated both the social media conversation over the last week and the Budget itself, with 40.9% of the Twitter traffic.<\/p>\n The NHS featured second in the list of topics with 20.7% of the conversation and infrastructure, another topic which dominated the Budget as the Government set out its levelling up agenda was the third most popular topic with 12.8%. However, the media response was not uncritical, with The Guardian<\/em>\u2019s Kate Proctor<\/a> questioning whether Rishi Sunak\u2019s claim that the Conservatives were now \u2018the party of public services\u2019 was evidence of amnesia from the Government which had itself introduced austerity and appeared to have had \u2018a re-think on borrowing\u2019. She also noted the package of announcements<\/a> aimed at moving the civil service out of its London base with 22,000 jobs heading out of London and a devolution deal for West Yorkshire including a \u00a34.2bn funding settlement.<\/p>\n The Sun<\/em>\u2019s Tom Newton Dunn summarised the Budget<\/a> by saying the \u2018rabbit out of the hat\u2019 announcement that all Chancellors seek to deliver was most likely the \u2018business rate holiday\u2019 for small businesses. He added that most other major decisions had been \u2018delayed as a result\u2019 of the coronavirus, especially setting any new fiscal rules. Therefore, he noted there was \u2018no reason for Javid to resign after all\u2019.<\/p>\n Vuelio\u2019s Budget analysis, summary and stakeholder response document<\/a> is available to read and download here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Vuelio and its sister company Pulsar have monitored the Twitter response to this week’s Budget, tracking the tweets from 50 top political journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":129014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7383,7271],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129012"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129018,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129012\/revisions\/129018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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An additional Pulsar graph showed that positive tweets by the top 50 political journalists being tracked outnumbered negative and neutral ones.<\/p>\n