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The former chancellor has also warned that pre-budget briefing as left an ‘air of gloom’ over the economy
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Former chancellor Lord Ken Clarke has warned Rachel Reeves' "disastrous bad practice" of allowing her budget to be briefed before it is delivered has "produced an air of gloom over the economy".






