Sunak Delivers Johnson-Style Budget to Ramp Up U.K. Spending

Faster growth estimates give chancellor more money to spend
Also sets out plan to stabilize pandemic-hit public finances

Rishi Sunak departs from number 11 Downing Street with his ministerial dispatch box on his way to present his spending review in Parliament in London, on Oct. 27.Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg

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By Alex Morales and David Goodman

October 27, 2021 at 12:35 PM UTC

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October 27, 2021 at 5:54 PM UTC

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Rishi Sunak raised funding for every government department and offered fresh support for working families while pledging to stabilize the U.K.’s pandemic-hit public finances, in a surprisingly expansive budget that channeled the upbeat instincts of his boss, Prime Minister Boris Johnson.