‘No comfort’ for retailers in ‘missed opportunity’ Budget

Jeremy Hunt

The Budget has been met with a largely tepid reaction from retailers and industry bodies, after the chancellor failed to address several important issues.

Despite being a key part of the Conservatives’ 2019 manifesto, chancellor Jeremy Hunt failed to address retail’s longstanding bugbear of business rates and said nothing about freezing the rates multiplier in 2024/25.

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