As the immediate afterglow of the stamp duty announcement faded, the realities of the UK’s fiscal position have begun to burn through in this week’s headlines.
Cuts amounting to a further £60bn by 2020 and one million fewer jobs in the public sector only reinforce what local government already knew - we are in a financial straightjacket and it will only get tighter.
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