Why Rishi Sunak’s dream budget may be out of sight forever as long as Boris Johnson’s prime minister
Rishi Sunak, a devotee of Nigel Lawson, believes in a smaller state, curbing lending, lowering taxes and fighting inflation. Once again, he made a major tax announcement in which he did the opposite. Today’s £ 15bn spending expanded the state’s role with the arrival of one-off financial transfers, could spur inflation, raise debt and contain …