📺 In @ITV leaders' debate last night @julie_etch put to the leaders that we have said the parties were joining in a 'conspiracy of silence' on the trade-offs and choices that face the next government.
— Institute for Fiscal Studies (@TheIFS) June 5, 2024
What do we mean by that? @PJTheEconomist explains pic.twitter.com/w1CAap0LuB
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