政府研究所：2024年紧缩政策推迟？工党首个预算对公共服务的影响报告（英文版）

The outgoing Conservative government left public services in a precarious state. Waiting lists in the NHS are stubbornly high, councils are on the verge of bankruptcy, backlogs in the criminal courts are at record levels and prisons are at bursting point. The spending plans inherited by Labour would likely have left most services performing worse at the next election in 2028/29 than they were at the 2019 election – and substantially worse than in 2010. In July, shortly after Labour entered go