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Chancellor accused of unveiling a spending review which had been ‘full off numbers, few of them useful’
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Even the UK’s leading economist was flummoxed.
Minutes after Rachel Reeves had delivered her first spending review, Paul Johnson, the head of the influential Institute for Fiscal Studies, said he was not sure he had ever listened to a speech by a chancellor where it was “so hard to work out what is happening”. Her statement to the Commons had been “full of numbers, few of them useful”, he added.
