Budget plans risk ‘second lost decade’ of living standards, Jeremy Hunt told
by Richard Partington, Aletha Adu and Kevin Rawlinson from World news | The Guardian on (#6K2MH)
Exclusive: Joseph Rowntree Foundation finds widening gulf between demand for tax cuts and reality for millions struggling
Jeremy Hunt has been told Wednesday's budget risks condemning Britain to a second lost decade" for living standards that would leave working families 1,900 a year worse off.
The chancellor enters a crunch week under pressure from his party to deliver a package of pre-election tax cuts, but analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) finds a widening gulf between these political demands and the reality facing millions of struggling people.
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