Here’s what Rachel Reeves is tipped to announce after months of speculation
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Every chancellor likes to float ideas before a budget to test how they might land with the public.
However, the sheer volume of policy ideas floated – and in some cases quickly jettisoned – through the media in the run-up to Wednesday’s Westminster set-piece has set Rachel Reeves’s second budget apart.
The speaker of the House of Commons, Lindsay Hoyle, called it “the hokey cokey budget” in blasting the chancellor for keeping parliament in the dark while what was likely to be in the budget was debated in the press.
