Budget Battle Lines Drawn: Wall Street Warns, Reform Cuts, and Business Lobbying Intensifies Ahead of Healey's October Reckoning

The October 28 Budget deadline has turned Westminster into a lobbying war zone — with Wall Street, Reform UK, the BCC, and Labour's own backbenchers all drawing battle lines over where Chancellor John Healey should find the up to £25bn the government needs to fund Prime Minister Andy Burnham's spending pledges.

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JP Morgan chief executive Jamie Dimon held an introductory call with Healey last Thursday and wasted no time warning that any windfall...