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The autumn budget: the hard facts paint a bleak picture
JAMES MEADWAY sizes up a Budget which has driven a coach and horses through the government’s green rhetoric

RISHI SUNAK has delivered a Budget that confirms the turn inside the Tory Party away from austerity spending cuts. 

It confirms that this is Boris Johnson’s government, eager to spend and intervene in the economy in a way that we have not seen Conservatives do for a very long time. 

To win a new consensus on government spending and investment is an important victory for anti-austerity campaigners.

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