20-06-2017 17:10 via theguardian.com

It's payback time as Spreadsheet Phil morphs into Freewheelin' Phil | John Crace

The chill-out chancellor’s Mansion House speech promised the City everything – just to cause maximum distress to the MaybotOut with the white ties and tiaras and in with the business suits. A week later than planned, owing to the Grenfell Tower fire, the chancellor came to the Mansion House to give his annual speech to the City over a working breakfast, not a banquet. And the unexpected informality seemed to have rubbed off on Philip Hammond.The last couple of weeks have been very ki
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