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Inflation leaves ministers starved of funds despite budget handouts
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One of the government’s messages from the budget is that age of austerity is over.
And it is clear from the details of individual Whitehall budgets that all departments are on course to have more money in real terms at the end of the parliament than they started with.
Rishi Sunak achieves this ambition by reversing cuts that were put in place last year. It means he can rebut critics who have likened him to the architect of austerity – George Osborne.
He told MPs his tax rises would re-energise public services, much as Gordon Brown would have done in the era before the financial crash when the former Labour chancellor repeated the phrase “prudence for a purpose” on a loop.
However, there are plenty of ministers who will be asked to tackle
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