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Rachel Reeves hints there will be budget measures to push down prices and Bank of England is likely to act UK inflation eases to 3.6% before crunch budget Business live – latest updates After three months on a high plateau, inflation is beginning to ease again. The drop from 3.8% to 3.6% in the October consumer prices index sets the UK on a downward path that reduces the pressure on shoppers, businesses and the government. Never mind that City economists had expected a fall last month. It appears to be a turning point back towards normality after a topsy-turvy…

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Who knows where this government’s credibility will be after next week’s exceptionally difficult budget By instinct and conviction, Rachel Reeves is a traditionally social democratic, centre-left Labour chancellor. When she delivers her budget next week, though, those qualities will be hard to discern. The reason for that is simple but powerful. She has become hemmed in on every side by avoidably tight commitments on taxation, spending and borrowing. Above all, however, she is hemmed in by Labour politics. It did not have to be this way. Reeves would have had a freer fiscal hand if she and Labour had…