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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Britain’s budget risks being a huge missed opportunity Rachel Reeves looks set to please no one for little return The Economist Britain October 17, 2024 | 1010 words | ★★★★ ★ Many politicians would kill to be in Rachel Reeves’s position. Two weeks before her first budget, Britain’s chancellor has the benefit of an unassailably large majority in Parliament, a leaderless opposition and almost five years before the next election—enough time for even slow-burn policies to start winning over voters. If there were ever a moment to reshape how tax and spending work in Britain in support of the government’s self-professed aim of igniting growth, this is it. True, Ms Reeves has some firefighting to do: she needs to find £20bn-30bn ($26bn-39bn, or 0.7-1.1% of gdp) a year just to stop Britain’s feeble public services from crumbling further, and ideally a slug more than that to start investing in them. But that should ………………………………