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Politics

The Tories’ real dilemma? To spend or not to spend

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

While the rest of the country waits for this spring to arrive, in Westminster the talk is all of spring 2019. That’s when the United Kingdom formally leaves the European Union, and when a slew of cabinet ministers think the Tory leadership contest will begin in earnest. But something else will happen in the spring of next year that will be almost as important: the review setting out departmental spending from 2020 to 2023.

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