Budget Notes 2020
March 2020
The Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, delivered a Budget in somewhat extraordinary circumstances. Having been appointed on Valentine’s Day and in the job for less than a month, Mr Sunak was not only facing demands from his party to deliver on their ambitious programme of “levelling up” the UK’s regions, but also handling political fallout from the recent floods and, of course, providing a financial platform for the government’s plans to deal with the coronavirus pandemic…
