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Britain's leading tax and spending thinktank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has warned that leaving the European Union would force ministers to extend austerity measures by up to two years to achieve a budget surplus.

In his Autumn Statement in December, Chancellor George Osborne acknowledged public finances were taking longer to rectify than planned, and admitted he would be forced to extend austerity measures by at least another year.

In his Autumn Statement in December, Mr Osborne acknowledged public finances were taking longer to rectify than planned, and admitted he would be forced to extend austerity measures by at least another year.

Ed Miliband has promised to extend austerity and slash welfare in plans etched into a rock.

Slower growth than previously predicted by the government also forced George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to extend his austerity measures by two more years last month.

During the statement, George Osborne revealed he had been forced to extend economic austerity measures to 2018 - and he will miss his own target for reducing the national debt.

When tax revenues disappointed, he extended austerity instead of redoubling it.

On Saturday, his coalition government said it would seek to revoke certain taxes, ease the repayment terms for taxpayers who owe money to the state, suspend planned layoffs in the bloated public sector and extend the deadline for imposing additional austerity measures by two years.

The findings come just a week after the chancellor, George Osborne, reduced economic growth forecasts, increased government borrowing and said austerity measures would be extended to 2017.

On Wednesday, chancellor George Osborne tried his best in his autumn statement to put a positive gloss on the economic outlook – despite downgrading growth forecasts again, admitting that he would break his "golden rule" on borrowing and announcing that austerity measures would be extended another year to 2018.

Austerity measures will be extended to 2018 and Mr Osborne looks set to miss key debt-reduction targets.