In his Summer Statement, the Chancellor set out his plan to ‘protect, create and support jobs’ but with questions remaining on exactly how the Government will rebuild the economy and what role business will play in the ‘New Deal for Britain’, all eyes are now firmly fixed on the next fiscal event – the Budget and Spending Review.
Watch WA Communications’ Directors Marc Woolfson and Lisa Townsend in conversation with Jim Pickard, the Chief Political Correspondent at the Financial Times, discussing how the ‘New Deal for Britain’ has been received by Conservative backbenchers and scrutinised by the Opposition, the scale of the financial challenges ahead, and what we might expect from the Autumn Statement in balancing competing priorities.