![]() Surprise boost for Whitehall budgets won’t rectify austerity – The Guardian.Chancellor promises to restore 0.7% overseas aid spending – FT.Splurge of the century heralds end to Tory austerity – The Times.Government spending hits levels not seen since 1970s – Daily Telegraph.The move came as Sunak repudiated austerity and announced £150 billion extra cash for hospitals, schools and the justice system, with almost every department receiving large budget increases.” – The Times “Every household in Britain is paying £3,000 more in taxes since Boris Johnson became prime minister, it emerged this morning, after Rishi Sunak used his budget to position the Tories as the “real party of public services”. In a gloomy analysis of yesterday’s budget the Resolution Foundation said real wages would fall next year and the UK was in the midst of its weakest decade for pay growth since the 1930s. It added that this came at a time when average taxes had significantly risen - to the highest level since Clement Attlee’s postwar Labour government of 1945-51.
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