The UK’s poorest people have been utterly abandoned by this ideological chancellor | Paul Kissack

He could have thrown them a lifeline. Instead, he is pushing thousands more into their ranks

• Paul Kissack is chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

I can’t recall a worse fiscal event than Wednesday’s spring statement.

It had nothing meaningful to say on the big strategic challenges our economy faces. According to the prime minister, levelling up is the defining mission of this government. The chancellor couldn’t bring himself to even mention it. There was similarly nothing to learn about net zero or the UK’s productivity challenge.

Paul Kissack is chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

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