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This budget fails to live up to Andy Burnham’s grand rhetoric | Letters

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The GuardianThis budget fails to live up to Andy Burnham’s grand rhetoric | Letters
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Caitlin Boswell of Tax Justice UK and others on what Aditya Chakrabortty described as a ‘Martin Lewis budget’ Aditya Chakrabortty was spot-on in his analysis of John Healey’s budget ( Burnham promised big change – where was it? Instead we got the Martin…

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