It’s unlikely anyone in local government would have been looking to last week’s Spring Statement for a financial reprieve and the chancellor did not disappoint.
There were no rabbits pulled out of hats – there wasn’t even a hat – and the closest Mr Hammond came to a giveaway was a first step towards addressing period poverty with the promise of free sanitary products in schools. Important in its own right, but hardly a financial bonanza.
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