PEOPLE have been “crushingly disappointed” by the Budget because it did not signal the end of austerity as Prime Minister Theresa May had promised, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said today.

There was no new money for local policing and teachers are really angry that there was no cash for day-to-day running of schools, he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Chancellor Philip Hammond clarified today’s BBC Today programme that his Budget pledge of £400 million for schools to spend on “little extras” is for building maintenance and equipment, meaning it cannot be spent on staffing or even the pens, books and toilet paper that many schools have been begging parents to shell out for.