The 2 minute visual guide to the Autumn Statement

As ever, George Osborne reeled off lots of lots of numbers to suggest the economy and public finances were extremely healthy. Underneath the boasts, the reality is rather darker, showing serious shortfalls in tax revenues and assumptions of huge austerity still to come. In fact Mr Osborne was only saved from something worse by enormous downward revisions to forecasts of future debt interest. The Office for Budget Responsibility’s document does not help to get to the bottom of things much this time. Hopefully, these nine charts enable you to avoid all the pain of looking at the official documents. It is all you need to understand the new UK forecasts of the economy and public finances.

1. Growth slows quite fast