Obviously you continue to take in money because people pay taxes and all the other ways that revenue comes intotheTreasury, but you are in a situation where, absent your borrowing authority, you have bills and obligations that far exceed the money in your pocket.
His handling so far of the tricky welfare-reform issue has been assured, provoking neither indignation among Labour backbenchers nor yet the hostility of a Treasury reluctant to pay for expensive programmes to propel benefit claimants into work.