The Chancellor has put growth at the centre of his economic plans, talking about young people starting businesses that can grow globally, self-employed people having profits to reinvest and creating the conditions for British businesses to succeed.

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The ambition is welcome, but delivering it will depend heavily on whether the people being asked to create that growth actually feel confident enough to make those decisions.

The Chancellor wants entrepreneurs to take risks, businesses to invest and the self-employed to put their profits back into growing, but those decisions become much harder when people are already facing higher costs and have no idea what the tax landscape will look like after October.

Tax becomes part of the calculation whenever somebody considers putting more money into their business, taking on another employee, buying equipment or expanding into new premises, because ultimately they need to know what the decision is going........

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