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QUOTE From: Budget 2026 live: Latest updates, analysis and fact checks

Healey accepts Labour has put 'a lot of pressure' on business

The Chancellor, John Healey, accepts that Labour has put "a lot of pressure" on business, according to the Guardian and City AM. Only that phrase has been reported. The full sentence in which he said it has not been quoted.

The Guardian's politics live blog on 22 October reports that helping entrepreneurs will be a Budget priority. It says he is expected to cut red tape, particularly for smaller businesses. That is a report, and no specific measure has been announced.

City AM reports that Healey gave the interview to the Times in Aberdeen, on a visit marking the approval of the Jackdaw gas field. It is the same interview in which he said some entrepreneurs keep going "through sheer bloody-mindedness".

Healey delivers the Budget on Wednesday 28 October.

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