Budget: Hammond 'between a rock and a hard place'
Jessica Figueras, chief analyst at GlobalData explains that Philip Hammond had to choose between several difficult options in this budget
No Chancellor can please everyone, but Philip Hammond was between a rock and a hard place. The UK is already the slowest-growing G7 economy and forecasts show our economic prospects worsening. Yet demands...
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