What is the truth about Britain''s finances?
''Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works''
Laura Kuenssberg''Paul Johnson - the oracle of fiscal - has provided the perfect guide through this dense thicket of fiscal facts and fictions''
Andy Haldane''If you want to understand why crazy politics routinely trumps economic rationality in government choices, read this''
Robert Peston''Fire and passion, combined with the facts... Every politician should get a copy''
Polly ToynbeePaul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute for Fiscal Studies aim to hold Government to account - without which politicians will get away with their half-truths, elisions and dubious claims.
This is a forensic examination - by the man best placed to do so - of the way the state raises and spends -1 trillion of our money every year. To follow the money. To provide an explanation, of where that money comes from and
