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How could fiscal policy be reset?

We think new Chancellor Philip Hammond’s fiscal policy “reset” resulting from Brexit will involve some discretionary loosening. This will come on top of automatic stabilisers which will lower receipts growth and increase welfare spending in response to the likely deterioration of economic growth.

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