John McDonnell comment on IFS Green Budget 2018

John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, commenting on this year’s IFS Green Budget, said:

“This heaps yet more pressure on the Chancellor to explain how he is going to deliver on the Tory promise of ending austerity.

“With billions of cuts in the form of Universal Credit still to come, and public services at breaking point, tinkering around the edges is not enough.

“It’s time the Chancellor finally came clean about where the additional funding for the NHS is coming from.

“Labour will stop the roll-out of Universal Credit and end austerity in our public services, clamping down on tax avoidance so we can invest across the country.”