George Osborne used his first press conference to announce plans for an emergency budget and independence for economic forecasting to a new Office for Budget Responsibility.
Michael White compares the move with Gordon Brown's totemic move to give independence to the Bank of England in 1997.
Chief political correspondent Nicholas Watt quizzes Osborne on his commitment to the new department while economics editor Larry Elliott outlines how it will work.
In Bangkok, Guardian correspondent Ben Doherty says tensions are riding high as the deadline passes for women and children to leave the protesters' compound before the army begin forcibly removing demonstrators.
And back in Westminster the US pollster Stan Greenberg has been analysing a poll he conducted in the UK following the election. He tells Tom Clark that his findings show that while most of his respondents favoured centre-left policies, they've ended up with a centre-right government.
