What will be in the chancellor’s budget and spending review?
Rishi Sunak will use the budget and spending review on Wednesday to set out the government’s priorities up to the next election, while attempting to move on from crisis-management mode more than a year and a half into the Covid-19 pandemic.
The chancellor is expected to benefit from an improved economic outlook after a faster-than-expected recovery from the winter lockdown, although he must balance a desire to end emergency support with pressures from an unfolding cost-of-living crisis before a difficult winter.
Britain’s economy has recovered to close to pre-pandemic levels in recent months as lockdown measures have been relaxed thanks to the early introduction of the coronavirus vaccine, with the Office for Budget Responsibility expected to
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