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Ordinary workers to pay price for Osborne’s mess
IFS lays into Chancellor over £56 BILLION Budget black hole
WORKING people will face even lower wages and living standards because George Osborne lost billions “down the back of the sofa,” the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said yesterday.
IFS director Paul Johnson predicted the Chancellor would pick the pocket of ordinary people to plug his £56 billion Budget black hole.
Austerity will also drag on into the next decade because the economy is tanking under the Tories, he said.
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