The Chancellor’s new fiscal rules could help to convince voters and investors of the Conservative Party’s fiscal discipline. But with eleven rules having come and gone in the past seven years and with no less than nine new fiscal indicators unveiled in this Budget, the new targets are unlikely to constrain the government’s behaviour or be better understood than their predecessors.
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