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Budget Preview: Safety first

The new Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first priority in the Budget on Wednesday 11th March will be to deliver a package of measures to help those areas of the economy likely to be hit hardest by the coronavirus outbreak. He will presumably also get things rolling on delivering the government’s election manifesto by raising investment spending. Anything else will probably have to wait until the next Budget and Spending Review later in 2020.

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