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Economic Forecast - Reeves insists economic plan working in 'uncertain' world as UK growth forecast lowered for 2026

04-03-2026 03:08

The chancellor says in her Spring Statement that unemployment will peak later this year and then fall every year of the forecast period until 2030.

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