Fifty years of putting off the inevitable

22 Feb 2024

In a few weeks, when he delivers the budget, Jeremy Hunt will announce a tax cut. This will not be remotely affordable. It will only fit within the government’s fiscal rules because he is pretending that spending will rise by far less than it actually will after the election. This is not a contentious assertion. The head of the OBR

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Sam Freedman

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