Most financial journalists hate the Budget. All day long we rewrite the same old boring summary of big fiscal changes, with supposedly pivotal impacts on the national body politic.
The only bright point is we are also inundated with constant insights/drivel by PR firms, some of it really rather amusing. Yet despite my corrosive cynicism, I concede Budget time must be equally boring for the investment industry and their massed ranks of PRs. One tactic is to proclaim utter surprise and astonishment at some shameless money grab. This year's prize for the most breathless reaction must belong to Nigel Green, founder and CEO of deVere Group who proclaimed that "it is somewhat surprising and disappointing that the Chancellor has delivered the first Conservative-only Budge...
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