All in this together?

The government has consistently argued that under the government spending review those with the broadest backs would take the heaviest burden – that the package would conform to the principle of ‘progressive austerity’. However, two independent studies, the first by the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the second by Tim Horton and Howard Reed for the TUC, challenge this assessment finding that the overall impact of the spending review is regressive.

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