We also know that it will cut Universal Credit (a social-security payment) and raise the National Insurance tax (which contributes to the UK’s state benefits and health service). We know that the government will raise the UK’s minimum wage and remove a pay freeze for public-sector workers. But while its contents are usually a closely guarded secret, this year’s have been leaked to the press for weeks. One nailed-on certainty about the UK chancellor of the exchequer’s annual budget is the photo-call: Rishi Sunak will stand in front of 11 Downing Street, the chancellor’s official residence, today, holding aloft a shiny red briefcase in the manner of a young boy on his first day of school.
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