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A breathing space budget or a look into a new bleak economic reality?
Chancellor John Healey delivered a no-thrills budget, but with grim warnings on the economic dashboard from the Office for Budget Responsibility, can he deliver the "breathing space" he wants to give people?
With growth downgraded, borrowing set to rise and taxes heading for a post-war high, did he deliver any hope or has he simply kicked the can down the road.
Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy are joined by Sky News' economics and data editor Ed Conway to go over the big decisions, examine what the numbers mean for households and ask if Labour still has "fresh hope for the future".
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