Responding to the Spending Review, the IEA’s Director General Mark Littlewood told the Daily Mail that the Chancellor “can’t squeeze the private sector any further” adding that he must focus on “a jobs-led recovery”.

Littlewood said the pandemic is “a black swan event” and the drop in tax receipts “shows what happens when a government locks down a whole economy and GDP falls 11 per cent”.

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