IFS: UK needs £15bn in tax rises or spending cuts by 2022

Austerity will continue if the next government wants to balance the books, warns Institute for Fiscal Studies

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond
(Image credit: Roger Bosch / Stringer)

Austerity is not going anywhere soon, predicts the Institute for Fiscal Studies, which warns the next government must either increase taxes or make spending cuts to eliminate the deficit.

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