As expected, the Chancellor Philip Hammond was constrained by the Office for Budget Responsibility’s (OBR) gloom over the economic outlook. Nonetheless, recent favourable fiscal trends and some timely accounting changes allowed him to unveil a bigger giveaway than was generally anticipated.
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