‘Pretty Bold’: Burnham Defends Healey’s Budget

Worse off under Burnham: The middle-earners and families struggling with bills who face a fall in living standards under Labour’s ‘is that it?’ Budget

‘Budget is bold enough’ despite limited ‘room for manoeuvre’, Andy Burnham says

The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said the Budget’s ‘raft of fiddly measures’ would do little to boost growth.

An ‘economically credible budget’ – former treasury minister reacts to Burnham’s financial plan

John Healey has delivered the first budget of the Andy Burnham administration. But was it really that different to what might have come before?

‘Pretty bold’: Burnham defends Healey’s Budget

Andy Burnham has jumped to the defence of John Healey’s first Budget, claiming it was “pretty bold” and looked to “help everybody”.  The Prime Minister said on Wednesday afternoon that the Chancellor delivered on support to British households and businesses.  He told broadcasters: “It’s pretty bold to help 20m households with their energy costs through a council tax cut this winter. It’s bold to lift 70,000 businesses out of business rates altog…

583. Is Burnham’s Budget Too Safe and How Brazil Defied Trump - Alastair Campbell

With the UK’s new Chancellor, John Healey, announcing his first budget and Kemi Badenoch asking him, “is that it?”, how will the public judge his plans? With Lula making an historic return to Brazil’s presidency, was it the strength of his campaign or Bolsonaro Jr’s electoral gaffes in the leadership race that proved decisive? How […]

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