Tomorrow's the big day. Like all cautious columnists I have, over the past few weeks, predicted that the Budget will be either a complete stinker or not such a stinker, thus covering all outcomes.

But on this momentous eve, my Budgetometer is swinging more to the grim. This began a few days ago when Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that she was rewriting Britain's debt rules, thus releasing £50 billion that no-one knew we had. Her confident, slightly dazed smile reminded me of another smile. But whose was it? Reader,........

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