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...“In our view there aren’t easy things you can do in the short term,” he said, adding that resolving ongoing and costly industrial disputes with doctors “could be the single biggest contributor to improving...
...“The FCA doesn’t determine policy on pensions — the chancellor does,” said one. “The FCA should stop trying to make policy....
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...I’m not suggesting for a second that Hunt doesn’t understand the damage Brexit has done and the bind it puts the UK in when it comes to attracting trade and investment — I’ve no doubt he’s painfully aware...
...For now, some thoughts about the political aims that Hunt has in his Budget....
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...But in terms of assessing how it has landed politically, the potential game-changer here isn’t anything that Hunt has “given away” in terms of tax cuts: they did not move the dial with voters last time and...
...To make sure its speedo isn’t a rear-view mirror, Peel Hunt includes qualitative measures including an “AI-driven assessment of Peel Hunt sales and research”....
...We believe that in a free society the money you earn doesn’t belong to the government. It belongs to you....
...Some were “quite pure free-market economists who don’t like this sort of thing”, said one executive....
...“It is a tough call, but it isn’t clear whether there will be easier alternatives.”...
...Hunt warned moderate Tory MPs from the One Nation group to temper their expectations of big tax cuts at a private meeting on Monday. “He said there wasn’t a shed load of money,” said one attendee....
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...“I would only cut taxes in a way that was responsible and I certainly wouldn’t do anything that fuelled inflation just when we are starting to have some success in bringing down inflation,” Hunt told Sky...
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