While the Spring Budget has generated a lot of political controversy, it was a fairly dull affair from a macroeconomic perspective. Even if the policy to raise National Insurance Contributions on the selfemployed is excluded from the Finance Bill, as the PM has suggested, the Chancellor’s largest annual net giveaway would only be £3bn (0.15% of GDP).
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