Chancellor abandons George Osborne’s surplus target to focus on infrastructure

03/10/2016david.thomsonUK chancellor in his keynote speech to Conservative party conference outlines a “pragmatic” approach after ripping up George Osborne fiscal policy of having a surplus by 2020 PHILIP HAMMOND has said that he will rip up his predecessor George Osborne’s target of having a surplus by the end of this parliament, and instead focus on infrastructure projects […]