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The Chancellor will claim that above-inflation recommendations of the pay review bodies have created a blackhole in the nation's finances. But accepting the recommendations is a political choice.

Henry Newman
Jul 29, 2024
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Later today the Chancellor will set out how the last Conservative Government supposedly left the worst economic inheritance since the Second World War. Nick Timothy and others have already outlined this claim’s mendacity, including by comparing public sector net borrowing as a proportion of GDP now, with 2010 figures. Those with longer memories will rec…

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