The Budget has revealed for the first time the scale of the austerity ahead - it amounts to the deepest and longest period of public spending cuts since the Second World War. Rowena Crawford and Gemma Tetlow explain.

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Gemma Tetlow

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Rowena Crawford

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Crawford, R and Tetlow, G. (2010). The axeman is coming [Comment] IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/axeman-coming (accessed: 20 April 2024).

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