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Tomorrow’s Budget could be the most important in years. People and businesses around the country are desperate to know how the Chancellor is going to help them after a long period of high taxes and sluggish growth. If I were Jeremy Hunt, I’d already be dreaming of sitting down with…

Pre-election giveaway should save average earner £450 a year but spending cuts may follow

The Treasury watchdog is seen by some Tories as a block to tax cuts – and could be ignored by Jeremy Hunt

Editorial: Instead of sticking to arbitrary limits, politicians should be able to make the case for spending on urgent social repair

Only he can save the UK in its hour of need, and he’ll start by taking out Angela Rayner at the general election

In Demos speech, shadow work and pensions secretary takes tough stance on welfare as she lays out plans for young

Cast your mind back – if you can – to September 1978. Jim Callaghan announced he would not call an early election (which he might have won), Pope John Paul I died after 33 days of papacy and the Commodores were number one with their hit, 'Three Times A Lady".

His motley of acquaintances include Jacob Rees-Mogg and Jeremy Corbyn

Worse than John Major amid sleaze, Boris Johnson following partygate and Liz Truss in the immediate aftermath of the calamitous “mini-Budget”. The Conservatives under Rishi Sunak have fallen to a record low of 20 per cent, according to an exclusive Ipsos poll. This is their weakest result since 1978, when…