Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak fails to commit to eastern HS2 leg days before autumn Budget is revealed in Commons

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Rishi Sunak has refused to be drawn on the future of the eastern leg of HS2 just three days before announcing his spending plans in the autumn Budget later this week

• £1.4bn to encourage foreign investment into UK businesses and attract overseas talentborders and immigration system, as well as a new maritime patrol fleet• £560m for adult maths coaching to help increase numeracy• £500m support for young families

"But those are the challenges that I'm grappling with and I have to take those challenges and figure out what's the right way to do that and we've made some decisions which I believe, although they are difficult, are the right decisions. • Mr Sunak reiterated that the government has delivered"about £16bn worth of tax cuts on business rates" to help hospitality and retail businesses get through the pandemic

• The chancellor said new network family hubs are"addressing probably something slightly different" than Sure Start centres and that they are"broader"• Mr Sunak refused to be drawn on whether former chancellor George Osborne was right or wrong to cut Sure Start provisionLabour's Ms Reeves said her party would abolish business rates which it is estimated would cost £25bn.

 

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Spend less money on benefits for the 'freeloaders' in our society. Would be better spent on projects like this to help business and working people who contribute to our economy.

Money would be better spent on upgrading existing lines

Shafted again, still happy you voted for them 🙈.

The last two trains I attempted to get were cancelled without any prior notice. This Chancellor is either deluded or flat out lying to the Great British public.

This government we should get them out of power ok from Gary Scott Arstall

Not happening then

What is the point of the big autumn Budget ' we all know what is going on . All this government can do is run to the media first to put out what doing to make them self look good so we was told what coming to day can have Wednesday off ' govern the country by media what a world

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