Budget 2021: ‘Scrooge Sunak not levelling with people’ on cuts
The Budget leaves the chancellor looking more Scrooge than Santa, says the Institute for Fiscal Studies. …
“It is, by the way, remarkable that while the chancellor felt the need for a gradual phase out of furlough, business rates support, stamp duty reductions and VAT reductions, he is still set on a cliff-edge reduction in [universal credit] such that incomes of some of the poorest families will fall by over £80 between one month and the next.
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