Business · 30/10/20261 min read

This budget fails to live up to Andy Burnham's grand rhetoric. Letters

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Caitlin Boswell of Tax Justice UK and others on what Aditya Chakrabortty described as a Martin Lewis budget Aditya Chakravortty was spot-on in his analysis of John Healey's budget (Burnham promised big change ...

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