“Great Budgets change history,” said chancellor Jeremy Hunt before his speech. But how many can you remember? The ones that stick in the mind tend to be the ones that went wrong; Kwasi Kwarteng’s inadvertent bombshell, for instance, or George Osborne’s omnishambles. One can make a case for Nigel Lawson’s cost-cutting Budget in 1988 being truly striking, but all
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Mar 08, 2024
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