Few expected Chancellor Phillip Hammond would spring any surprises in yesterday's Budget, but in the end that was not the case. Under pressure to support No. 10's 'end of austerity" message, bolstered by revised growth forecasts from the Office of Budget Responsibility, and safe in the knowledge that it could all go out of the window in the event of a no-deal Brexit, the Chancellor gave the most eventful Budget speech of recent years.
Budget 2018
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