Reaction as Sunak sets out Spending Review - BBC News
The chancellor says the government is providing £280bn this year to get the country through the coronavirus crisis.
On rare occasions, nervous chancellors leave No 11 gripping their documents, to deliver news to the country that resets the dial.

The pandemic has already cost jobs and hardships, but there can now be no doubt that the economic aftermath will last for many years.

The predictions of job losses, record levels of borrowing and debt - all huge headlines in themselves.

In the last few months, with almost no dissent, the government has scrambled to expand the state to help cope with coronavirus.

Other countries have done the same. There is little controversy about the decisions that have been taken so far.

But what lurks on the country’s balance sheet is the biggest economic baggage for generations.

There is almost zero political pressure to solve the problem any time soon.

But eventually the pressure will force a reckoning in the Tory party.

It’s a Conservative chancellor - whose instinct is to pare back the state - who has presided over a generational emergency expansion.

How Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson propose to solve that paradox will create the contours of political arguments at least until the next election.