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This year's budget did little for insurance

Looking back at my piece on last year's Budget, there is a temptation to just repeat everything in it or, indeed, to run the entire piece again in the hope that nobody spots it as, like last year, the Chancellor of the Exchequer's ("Hello, darling…") book-balancing act has once again managed to circumvent the insurance industry. What is interesting is that if you looked at the Government in terms of being a person, it seems that it is going to do what the majority of people have been doing for the last decade, in deciding to completely live beyond its means by having public borrowing inc...

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