Reeves' review only means extra taxes

DEPUTY LEADER OF THE SCOTTISH CONSERVATIVES

- Rachael Hamilton

IT'S pretty obvious that almost no one was persuaded by Rachael Reeves' spending review last week. “If you were baffled by the Chancellor's speech yesterday, so were we,” said Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Financial Studies (IFS). “It did not appear to be a serious effort to provide any useful information to anybody.” That would be a damning verdict from a political opponent. From independent economic experts, it was downright brutal.