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JEREMY HUNT’S first Budget was a continuation of the stream of austerity policies that has been almost uninterrupted since 2010. They represent yet another attack on ordinary people struggling to get by. At the same time, the commitments to growth are meaningless without any effective policies to deliver them.
Perhaps worst of all, rather than attempting to tame inflation, the government has used it to impose accelerated real-terms cuts in public spending including public-sector pay. They also plan more of the same.
The verdict from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was damning. They described the outcome as Britain facing “its biggest fall in spending power for 70 years as the surging cost of living eats into wages.”
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