Public services desperately need investment. But Brexit is all-consuming | Patrick Butler

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Philip Hammond might announce today that austerity will soon be over, but then what, asks Guardian social policy editor Patrick Butler

The £20bn public services bung reportedly dangled before MPs by the chancellor Philip Hammond before this week’s spring statement, in an attempt to persuade them to vote for Theresa May’s Brexit deal, will not surprise anyone who believes the main cause of disintegrating public services is lack of ministerial will to invest, rather than lack of money.

 

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I don’t think Britain bargained for all these secondary effects of Brexit. Such a tragedy.

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