Jeremy Hunt’s Budget failed to address ‘the real challenges’ facing UK, IFS warns

Jeremy Hunt’s Budget failed to address the “real challenges” facing Britain, the boss of Britain’s most influential economic think tank has warned.

Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), laid bare the chaos facing the NHS, local authorities, social care and the justice system, and said the chancellor had not been “transparent” about the scale of the problems.

And, in a damning assessment of the Conservative government and Labour, he said both are engaged in a “conspiracy of silence” about just how bleak the outlook for the country is.