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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 23 November 2020 - Sunak to announce spending plans
Description: "Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak will announce the Government’s spending plans for the next twelve months this week. In a TV interview yesterday, he was at pains to calm concerns regarding how the expenditure will be paid for.
It is fairly clear that there will be tax increases at some point in the next two to three years but there will be no return to austerity despite the threat of a public sector wage freeze.
There will be more money provided to the NHS with £3 billion made available immediately to allow it to catch up with procedures delayed by...