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‘Desperate times need desperate measures’ – City reacts to Spending Review

'Today isn’t the right time for tax rises', but they are coming

Red double-decker buses travel across the River Thames in front of skyscrapers and St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, U.K., on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.
Red double-decker buses travel across the River Thames in front of skyscrapers and St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London, U.K., on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020. Photo: Jason Alden/Getty Images

Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the UK economy will contract by 11.3% in 2020 during his Spending Review speech to parliament, the largest fall in output for more than 300 years.

Sunak also told parliament that borrowing was at the "highest recorded level" in peacetime history. The country is forecast to borrow a total of £394bn, equivalent to 19% of gross domestic product.

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