Article 50KXD IFS's criticism of budget spending plans could have been far worse | Larry Elliot

IFS's criticism of budget spending plans could have been far worse | Larry Elliot

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Larry Elliott Economics editor
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Thinktank expressed some disapproval but Sunak can count himself relatively lucky

It is part of budget tradition that the chancellor gets a kicking from the Institute for Fiscal Studies 24 hours after presenting his package to parliament. By that token, Rishi Sunak can count himself relatively lucky.

The UK's leading tax and spending thinktank certainly had its criticisms of the budget but, given Sunak's decision to spend and borrow hundreds of billions of pounds extra over the coming years, it could have been a lot worse.

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