It’s been a year since the Coalition’s Comprehensive Spending Review, but the public is
in no mood to celebrate its anniversary. As the economy has failed to recover – GDP was no higher in June this year than at the time of the Review – sentiment has turned against the
government.
The latest YouGov polling shows that just one-in-three think the government is handling the economy well, against 58 per cent who say “badly”. At the time of the Spending Review, the public was split evenly on this question.
Similarly, just 33 per cent think the government’s spending cuts are good for the economy, while half say they’re bad. But people do think the cuts are necessary – by a two-to-one margin. That figure has not been eroded at all by the bad economic news or Labour’s claims that what we need is a Keynesian stimulus.
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