Blog: Leaviss on the Budget

BUDGET BLOG

M&G's head of retail fixed interest Jim Leaviss went to the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to film his response to the Budget.

Once a year I head down to the Embankment, opposite the Houses of Parliament, to try to film a comment on the UK Budget whilst being heckled by wild eyed men drinking Kestrel Super, and pestered by packs of Italian students mistaking me for Brad Pitt making a movie about a tired fund manager in an ill-fitting suit. Here’s this year’s Budget film. If it sounds like I do not think the government are doing a great job on the economy, that would be a fair analysis. But for what it is worth, if we had ended up with a Labour-LibDem coalition instead, I doubt we would have a AAA credit rating o...