While this week's gilt-sterling sell-off was short-lived, it's left a gloomy cloud over the one-year anniversary of the government's election victory. If the Chancellor is going to continue to meet her fiscal rule with a buffer of £9.9bn, we think she will need raise up to £24bn in the Budget this autumn and this week's market reaction makes us more confident that taxes will rise further.
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