The Government Spends Like A Drunken Sailor

Britain's government is spending eye-watering sums across an ever-growing state, but where is all that money actually going?

Podcast host Duncan Barkes is joined by the TPA's William Yarwood and Shimeon Lee to discuss the TaxPayers' Alliance's latest Spending Factbook, which lays bare the scale of government spending and how taxpayers' money is being used across Whitehall and the wider public sector.

They examine which areas of government are consuming the most cash, how spending has changed over time, where the biggest pressures are coming from, and why successive governments have struggled to get the public finances under control.

Read the new factbook here