Paul Johnson, who heads economic think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has said Labour is being “disingenuous” when it claims to be surprised by the state of the finances, but that the Conservatives had “left Labour a mess to clear up.”
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Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank, said that could cost the government 3 billion pounds or $3.9 billion more than it had budgeted for.
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