Hammond´s £19bn bill to `end austerity`
(WorldNews Business)

`The government seems to have made two incompatible offers to the electorate,` Paul Johnson, the director of the IFS told me. `The first is that it wants to get rid of the deficit in the next few years. `And the second thing that the PM said just a couple of weeks ago is that the end of austerity is nigh. `Well, getting rid of austerity will mean spending at least an extra £20bn or so by the end of this parliament [2023]. `If you`re going to spend an extra £20bn...