Budget 2018: a missed opportunity to save public service | David Walker

Health aside, this budget makes little difference to most public sector staff, and there’s no extra money for police or prisons

For most public sector staff the budget will make little difference. The government adds £20bn more for health over five years, then waves £650m more for social care. But at the end of Philip Hammond’s show, public services are still far from fully clothed.

Available money that could have saved services was instead used to seduce taxpayers; the fiscal sustainability of ageing Britain remains as bleak as ever. The size of the public sector will at best stay constant as a proportion of GDP: this depleted state is the new normal.

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