Is any politician being honest about spending? Economist Paul Johnson talks to Kate Andrews

With less than a week to go until Britain goes to the polls, how much do we voters really know about the main parties' spending pledges, and how realistic they are? The Institute for Fiscal Studies has been one of the only organisations to do an extensive analysis of each party's pledges, finding that none of them really tally up. Kate Andrews interviews Paul Johnson, director of the IFS.

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