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UK Budget 2021: essential reading

These are some of the key articles in the Financial Times coverage of Wednesday’s Budget, Rishi Sunak’s second as chancellor

Sunak goes big and bold in bid to repair UK public finances
Projected government borrowing of £355bn in 2020-21 highlights scale of chancellor’s task
Sunak delivers spend now, tax later Budget to kickstart UK economy
Chancellor’s £65bn 2-year boost to tackle effects of pandemic to be followed by biggest tax rises in decades
OBR paints brighter picture for UK economy
Britain staves off threat of surging unemployment but some analysts warn against too much optimism
UK chancellor accused of playing politics over ‘levelling-up’ fund
Sunak’s leafy constituency placed in more needy category for infrastructure financing than former mining towns
The UK’s ‘new Tory’ economics are different but insufficient
Rishi Sunak’s Budget reverses some Conservative principles but fails on the vision post-pandemic Britain needs
City executives welcome supportive Budget that prepares for tax rises
Chancellor had to walk ‘very narrow path between fiscal responsibility and not undermining recovery’

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