Rachel Reeves could have to break her commitment to only one major economic event per year, experts have suggested ahead of this month’s Spring Statement.
Dr Isabel Stockton, a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), suggested that when faced with the options of breaking her self-imposed financial rules or keeping to the promise of only one fiscal event per year, “it seems likely that her commitment to a single fiscal event is the one that is likely to go”.
