After a decade dominated by iron rule economics – that the country cannot afford public services that protect its vulnerable citizens – the Resolution Foundation has said that public spending will “rocket” under either a Conservative or Labour government.
As a local authority director, when pressed to cut my budget I could never say with conviction that it was impossible to find some flexibility or efficiency, or to suggest system changes to achieve similar outcomes through different approaches. The problem was that my care, health and education money was committed to be spent on real people in real settings in real time; so simply stopping doing something was never a straightforward option. Instead, I spent an increasing amount of time simply trying to choose the least bad decision I could.
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