This week we've seen more gloomy announcements on the economy - with unemployment still rising and forecasts that the economy is tipping back into recession. More than a million women are now unemployed, the highest for 23 years. As the chancellor admitted in his autumn statement, the public finances are in a worse position than he expected.
All this has important implications for public spending - which will now continue to be cut well into the next parliament. As Ed Miliband acknowledged last week, politicians from all political parties will have to think even harder about which services to cut and which to prioritise in the coming years. Harder still, they will have to defend their decisions to the public.
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