When the Chancellor stands up to present his spending review next Wednesday it will be with the reputation of a crazed axeman. Much of the country, whether it thinks it a good thing or not, subscribes to the belief that George Osborne is shrinking the state year-on-year, slicing here, chopping there.
Ross Clark
Wasted! How ‘Austerity Osborne’ is still squandering billions
These aren’t austerity measures – and the state isn’t even shrinking
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