‘It’s no news just when we wanted some’: bosses react to spring statement

Business owners were generally disappointed by the lack of policy announcements in Rachel Reeves’s spring statement. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Rachel Reeves gave a deliberately low-key spring forecast on Tuesday, in an attempt to project calm amid volatility abroad and after repeated tax rising budgets.

But for some business owners struggling with rising costs, a lack of policy announcements this time around was a disappointment.