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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

A new 'Lawson boom'? No thanks, I remember the first one

Jeremy Hunt is hoping to recreate the Eighties “Lawson boom” with tax cuts in the March Budget, according to one particularly lurid splash headline in the Sunday papers. 

Be careful what you wish for. 

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