Boris Johnson’s government has set a course for a “high-tax, big-state economy” with a budget that will raise household tax bills by £3,000 on average by 2027, according to an analysis by an independent thinktank.
The Resolution Foundation said that despite a spending spree, real wages would fall again next year. The UK is “still in the midst of its weakest decade for pay growth since the 1930s,” it said.
Sunak portrayed the budget as preparing the “high-wage” economy for the “post-Covid” era, as
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