In order to fund corporate tax cuts and an infrastructure boost, yesterday’s Autumn Statement heaped more pain on consumers. Indeed, by announcing more benefit cuts for 2013 and 2014, and confirming that welfare spending will bear the brunt in the next parliament too, the measures increase the chance of a lost decade for consumer spending.
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