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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Labour tax cuts would threaten another 'period of austerity' for public services, warns IFS

Tax cuts by Labour if it wins power would theaten to inflict another “period of austerity” on Britain’s public services, leading economists warned on Thursday.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies said that to avoid such a squeeze on public services Sir Keir Starmer’s party would have to raise some taxes if it wanted to reduce others, while getting overall national debt down.

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