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Chancellor gives Downing Street speech as markets open and is expected to be ‘candid’ about choices to fill fiscal gap

Reeves says the UK has great strengths.

But years of economic mismanagement has limited our country’s potential, with long-term issues continually unchecked, potential unrealised.

It will be a budget led by this government’s values, of fairness and opportunity and focused squarely on the priorities of the British people:

Protecting our NHS, reducing our national debt and improving the cost of living.

Continue reading…Chancellor gives Downing Street speech as markets open and is expected to be ‘candid’ about choices to fill fiscal gapReeves says the UK has great strengths.But years of economic mismanagement has limited our country’s potential, with long-term issues continually unchecked, potential unrealised.It will be a budget led by this government’s values, of fairness and opportunity and focused squarely on the priorities of the British people:Protecting our NHS, reducing our national debt and improving the cost of living. Continue reading…