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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak during a visit to Fourpure Brewery in Bermondsey, London, after he delivered his Budget to the House of Commons

HOT on the heels of his speech at the Conservative Party conference, Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s campaign for the party’s leadership and 10 Downing Street continues.

His Budget address was more like an election address, bigging himself up with bogus generosity wrapped up in a giant but as yet blank invoice.

He made much of the Office for Budget Responsibility’s uprating of this year’s economic growth rate in Britain to 6.5 per cent. It’s not difficult to achieve a much higher rate than last year’s peak-Covid level.

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