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Comprehensive Spending Review

At the beginning of this debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Ms Eagle) quoted an article in The Wall Street Journal today that reported"““panic stations in the Treasury””" at finding out that the reduction in child benefit for higher earners was ““unenforceable””. It continued:"““At root is a problem that should have been apparent to those designing the policy, if detailed advice had been sought from civil servants before it was announced at Conservative party conference.””" My hon. Friend the Member for Streatham (Mr Umunna) referred to himself—in all humility, I am sure—asking Sir Andrew Turnbull from the Treasury Committee this morning:"““Do you think it's accurate to describe the UK as being on the brink of bankruptcy?””" The response was: ““No I don't.”” Both those bits of hot-off-the-press news—