ECONOMIC GROWTH

Unfinished business

The vision in Budget 2021 focused on a global, green, high tech economy, ‘but there was no sign of local government, local public services or local institutions of any sort’, says Dr Jonathan Carr-West.

There were two notable features of chancellor Rishi Sunak's budget for me. One, notable for what was there, one, for what wasn't.

Both came in the third part of his speech where, having detailed what support the government was providing to cope with the pandemic and how he was going to start paying for it, he turned to his vision of the future economy.

Jonathan Carr-West

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