The UK’s current deficit reduction plan offers to some the happy prospect of a smaller public sector in the future. But the fiscal consequences of the UK’s ageing population may frustrate such ambitions. Dealing with pressures to spend more in areas like health and pensions will require potentially painful measures to control costs or raise taxes and charges, along with the continuation of a tight grip on spending beyond the current Parliament.
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