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  • ‘Spoonful of sugar’ to come with Budget medicine, Labour mayor suggests

    A Labour mayor has said he thinks there will be “a spoonful of sugar along with the medicine” in the Budget next month. Steve Rotheram, Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, told the PA news agency he believes economic growth will be delivered “through our combined authorities and through devolution”, but it could be “very [...]

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has previously warned that the Budget due at the end of October will be “painful”.

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