UK public services need more cash to arrest further decline, says damning report
The UK’s crisis-hit public services will not recover before the next election and may require significant injections of cash to prevent further decline, according to a sobering annual review by the Institute for Government, a non-partisan think-tank.
After almost 13 years of austerity and grave damage to the public sector’s capacity as a result of the pandemic, the IfG report said “it is unclear whether the government will find existing funding levels to be politically sustainable in the run-up to the next election”, which must be called by the end of 2024.
It added: “The situation will be even harder for whoever forms the next government.”
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Jim Pickard
