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I'm all right, wild horses can't drag me away, but you've managed to,

so what's your, before we get down to the nitty-gritty, we obviously knew quite a lot of it had

already been slightly released. So what's your big takeaway, big picture takeaway of the budget?

Well, my big picture takeaway is actually that if you went back in time to 2014 and said,

and showed someone the text of this budget speech and says, we've left the European Union,

the Chancellor's just stood up and living this budget. You probably think Labour and UKIP have

formed a coalition. Despite the fact of all the briefings that this was the moment that Sunat

would begin to take the mask off this year's time, I'll put it and begin his programme of fiscal

retrenchment, cutting and raising taxes, that's not really the story of the budget at all. Yes,

corporation tax will go up by 2026 as will the income tax thresholds. But really, I actually think

the story is that this isn't the moment and you really see Sunat as a present himself to the public.

It's interesting, because I thought what struck me was that instead of going for sort of populist

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