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Leading article

Ambition deficit

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

Some Budgets are historic, most are boring and a small number can be remembered as a disaster. After just a few months, Philip Hammond has managed a budget – his first – that can be placed in this last category. Economically, it made very little difference. Politically, it is shaping up to be a disaster.

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