Hunt Plans Post Election Squeeze On Spending With Austerity 2.0
Treasury insiders said Hunt was considering freezing day-to-day public spending in real terms for three years after 2025 in next Thursday’s autumn statement, saving around £27 billion a year until 2028. A chancellor ally said she was likely to accept the plans set out in last year’s spending review, which was intended to deliver an average increase in real terms of 3.3 per cent to Whitehall departmental budgets between 2021-22 and 2024-25....