The Uncertainties In The UK’s Spring Statement

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A quick guide to the UK chancellor’s main policy announcements and official forecasts

The Uncertainties In The UK’s Spring Statement

The Chancellor’s Spring Statement today has more than its usual share.

Business leaders and professional advisors joined us to watch and discuss the Spring Statement | Randall & Payne

We hosted an event at Chargrove House, along with wealth management experts Rathbones, which was attended by a good selection of business leaders and professional advisors from the local area. It was definitely felt that there was a disconnect between the people in the room and the announcements and measures in today’s Spring Statement. There was a lingering question as to whether we trust the Government to deliver the required efficiency gains …

This Spring Statement has only created more uncertainty

We live in an uncertain world. Or, as Rachel Reeves put it in the House of Commons this afternoon: “Mr speaker the world is changing. We can see it and we can feel it.” It was a platitude that the chancellor returned to over and over during her 30 minute Spring Statement before Parliament. Faced with a whopping 50% cut in this year’s projected GDP growth rate by the OBR to just 1%, Reeves was desperate to show the British economy was being shape…

BRC responds to the Spring Statement