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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Tough times for the ‘Iron Chancellor’ who needs to regain the nation’s trust

It is fair to say that, dire economic inheritance or not, when the chancellor of the Exchequer delivered her Budget at the end of October, she did not expect a few months later to be facing the House of Commons to answer questions about a fiscal crisis.

Doubly galling, she finds herself and her policies compared unfavourably to Liz Truss.

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