30-10-2018 14:27 via theguardian.com

Hammond's budget is gambling with public finances, says IFS

Extra NHS funding ignores risk of UK accounts deteriorating badly after Brexit, thinktank says
Philip Hammond has been warned that he is gambling with the future health of the UK’s public finances after handing out tax cuts to the rich while finding extra money for the NHS by increasing national borrowing.In a stinging verdict on the chancellor’s budget, which Hammond had used to claim that austerity was ending and is set to be the last before Brexit, the Institute for Fiscal Studies
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