Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?) (leftfutures.org)
Public spending programmes, Fidesz has promised the Hungarian public, will be ring fenced. (conservativehome.blogs.com)
MPs have demanded the government outline the finances behind its HIV spending programme, after voicing concerns about where the money is coming from. (politics.co.uk)