5 JANUARY 1991, page 19

Racing Certainty

FIRST, though, he must fix his budget day — traditionally a Tuesday in mid-March. I can recommend 19 March. Nigel Lawson obstinately staged his budgets on Cham- pion Hurdle Day......

City And Suburban

Dry on the label but sweet in the bottle, here's to a budget for owners CHRISTOPHER FILDES N ext weekend the Treasury lets its hair down. It will not go down very far, because......

Paying For Poultices

THE Chancellor will remember that as last year's Budget approached, panicky self- appointed advisers were urging his prede- cessor to raise taxes and so try to slow the economy......

A List For Lamont

MR LAMONT has long chided the City for ignoring the new mass market for share ownership that the privatisations have sought to create, but he must now accept that privatisations......