Quote of the day 4th September 2024

"The numbers may be a little worse than they thought at the time, and I think there were some things that were hidden from view, but the overall picture over the next four or five years is very, very similar to what we knew before the election."

(Paul Johnson, director of the Independent IFS (Institute for Fiscal Studies)  dismisses the Labour government's suggestion that when they got into office they found things dramatically worse than they should reasonably have expected.)