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  1. A DECADE OF AUSTERITY quote "We recently reported that government departments will be asked to make cuts to help balance the budget. Earlier today, Paul Johnson, from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, predicted that Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng could end up freezing spending on public services to help get the economy under control. Johnson told BBC Radio 4: "The difficulty the government has got itself in is that it is cutting taxes so dramatically, without any kind of plan of what it is going to do on public spending." He said this would pose a challenge for the chancellor ahead of the Budget he plans to deliver in November - and speculated that Kwarteng could freeze spending for several years. But Johnson added that "a decade of austerity" raised questions of whether such a long freeze would be "credible"."
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