Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended the coalition government’s analysis of the Budget.

Mr Clegg said a report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), which said the Budget has hit poorest families the hardest, was “by definition partial”.

“It does not include the things we want to do to get people off benefits and into work,” he said during a visit to the Disasters Emergency Committee headquarters in central London. BBC.

So Clegg finds nothing wrong with the IFS report on the budget but he believes the IFS should include things we want to do to get people off benefits and into work – but want isn’t actually doing is it? So how could the IFS include them?

Unsurprisingly Clegg makes no mention of the public spending cuts which are going to put millions out of work. Clegg still wants a partial reading of the facts.

As I’ve said before arguing over whether the emergency budget is regressive or progressive is a moot point – the poor are going to be hit hard by the Com-Dems spending cuts.