Sausage roll socialism is served

Sausage roll socialism is served
Sausage rolls were on the menu during the PM's trip to the UK (Image: Twitter)
Dileepa Fonseka
In the hype before the budget, we heard this would be the one to show us what the prime minister, Chris Hipkins, was all about.Hipkins has so far been characterised by ruling taxes out, cutting commitments, reversing positions on issues like immigration and ingesting sausage rolls.But this budget was where we were promised we would get a hint of what sausage roll socialism was all about.Depending on your preferred side of the political fence, this is either small government capitalism surrounded by puff pastry or big government socialism encase...

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