The government’s fall fiscal update suggests the public finances will be in a better position in the coming years than we had assumed, but this is largely because the government chose not to deliver on any of its recent election pledges. If the government follows through with those additional spending proposals in the 2022 budget, they seem more likely to boost inflation than economic growth.
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