Media captionPhilip Hammond urged MPs to support Theresa May in her Brexit negotiations Amid the howling winds of a storm that came across the English channel at the weekend, a few hatches were being fastened down at the Treasury.
The Chancellor Philip Hammond gave a round of interviews on Sunday morning adopting a cautious tone on the economic outlook.
He spoke of slowing business investment, higher inflation, and “eye-watering” levels of government debt.
It came ahead of his first major economic announcement – Wednesday"s Autumn Statement.
Mr Hammond reflected on some apparent ill-winds from the continent by saying that Brexit negotiations will bring “an unprecedented level of uncertainty”.
Commentators were predicting a slowing of economic growth, he said.
All this provided the economic context – as he saw it – to the next in a series of crucial political events before the government pushes the EU exit button by April next year.
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