Upshot of Rishi Sunak’s spring statement? A bleak decade ahead

Analysis: Britain has ceased to be a country where workers can expect to get better off year after year

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Much has been written about the year of economic misery ahead. Rishi Sunak's attempts to mitigate the impact of the squeeze on living standards have been pored over and - generally - found wanting. The postmortem examinations carried out on the chancellor's spring statement were unflattering.

There was plenty for the thinktanks that specialise in analysing tax, spending and living standards - the Resolution Foundation and the Institute for Fiscal Studies - to mull over.