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Can we afford this budget?

The government's latest budget projects more debt and deficits for years to come. Can we afford it? How should we grade governments on spending when we go to the ballot box? Mostafa Askari, the chief economist at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, tackles those questions, and more.