The Autumn Budget 2024: ‘You’re going to like it, but not a lot’
After a week in which many businesspeople feared they may burst a blood vessel during the Chancellor’s speech, it was over. Raikes joined them at Randall & Payne’s Budget event to judge reaction.
Dear readers,
We hope you’ve had a good week.
If you were one of those who was not finding the build-up to Wednesday’s Budget easy, we hope it passed by painlessly, or at the very least not as badly as you feared it might.
Those old enough to recall television magician Paul Daniels and his famous catchphrase will understand the origins of the headline for this particular edition.
If you have no idea who he was and want to know what the nation suffered as popular entertainment pre-internet, you can always Google him, but we don’t think you need to bother in order to get the gist of the quote.
We were lucky enough to be invited to the annual live Budget event staged by accountants Randall & Payne at Gloucester Rugby’s Kingsholm stadium and went, deciding to risk it among a room full of business people, entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals and the professionals who advise them - that portion of the country the Government seemed unsure were members of the working population or not.
We hope…
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