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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Rachael Burford

Chancellor plans sweeping welfare cuts amid tariffs warning, higher inflation and increasing borrowing costs

The Chancellor is expected to make sweeping cuts to welfare in a bid to bring down Britain’s benefits bill amid warnings over trade tariffs, higher inflation and borrowing costs in the UK.

Rachel Reeves will slash public spending by billions of pounds in her spring statement on March 26 in response to the latest forecasts from the Budget watchdog, it has been reported.

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