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Weekly Perspectives: Can we now move on from the UK budget?

Anthony Willis
Senior Economist, Multi-Asset Solutions team

Key Takeaways

  • After a protracted period of speculation the UK budget was finally delivered. Although it served to calm markets and create additional fiscal headroom, the announced policy measures don’t appear to particularly set the pulse racing.
  • Although Labour campaigned on a proposal for growth of more than 2.5% annually, the Office for Budget Responsibility is forecasting growth of just 1.5% for 2026 and beyond, with nothing in the budget that will seemingly incentivise growth and further innovation or employment.
  • The “spend now, pay later” structure could see taxes rise just as the next general election rolls round, which will be a headache for Labour, but the only way to avoid those tax rises is for greater economic growth to feed into higher tax receipts.
  • At the very least we now have certainty, and perhaps the foundations for more ambition in terms of policy making; indeed, from a political and financial markets point of view this is a budget that has bought the government some time. So let’s turn the focus to other things: first up, a December rate cut?
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