David Gauke @DavidGauke
Putting aside the merits of more defence spending (or ambitious environmental policies), spending taxpayers’ money to ‘create jobs’ is usually either very expensive or ineffective. ‘It’ll create jobs’ is rarely a good justification in itself for public spending. — PolitiTweet.org
Lucy Fisher @LOS_Fisher
No 10 believes the settlement could create up to 10,000 jobs. Deal is extra £16.5bn *on top of* Tory manifesto com… https://t.co/EfnRZsKbHb
