What have we learned from Budget 2024?  Tuesday contained very little news, and that is a good thing. Making budget days boring should be a government slogan. Process over pantomime every day, at least for me.  First, the main decisions around taxation and spending had been well-flagged.  Second, the government has mixed the stand-still spending it needed to cope with our ageing society with one-off measures to produce a highly progressive budget. Thirdly, the government has shoved as much excess cash as politically feasible down various funding envelopes.  That’s the tl;dr of what we learned. Now let’s dig into the…

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