Sajid Javid promises largest spending rise in more than 15 years

Chancellor announces £13.8bn of extra expenditure and vows to build a ‘global Britain’. Sajid Javid has promised the largest increase in public spending in more than 15 years as he outlined a £13.8bn package ahead of a possible general election. Announcing departmental budgets for next year, the chancellor committed the government to a 4.1% increase in expenditure from 2019-20 to 2020-21, in a bid to draw a line under the era of austerity. Javid said he was in a position