UK bets on a boring budget | FT #shorts
Britain’s finance minister John Healey will deliver his annual budget on October 28. With the UK facing the highest borrowing costs in the G7, the spending item he will be most keen to get under control is the government’s interest payments bill.
The FT’s economics commentator Chris Giles tells Katie Martin why dull is good when it comes to public finances.
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