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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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The chancellor must ignore the blips and get on with long-term growth

There are dangers in calling for the resignation of a chancellor of the Exchequer because of one week’s bad numbers.

Mel Stride, the shadow chancellor, made something of a fool of himself on Tuesday, suggesting that the question for Rachel Reeves was “to go, or not to go”, because the pound was down and the interest rate on 30-year government debt had gone up.

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