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OPINION - Jeremy Hunt's Budget sold us the Big Lie of British politics — that we can afford our spending

No one wants Jeremy Hunt to be Chancellor. Labour doesn’t, obviously — the party has its own candidate, albeit with largely the same spending plans and fiscal rules. Rishi Sunak doesn’t — he wants to be his own finance minister. The Tory Right still pines for Truss-onomics, the SNP doesn’t…

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Blur drummer Dave Rowntree selected as Labour candidate for Mid Sussex in general election

The Britpop star will take on the Mid Sussex seat that includes Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Hurstpierpoint

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Donations to UK political parties nearly doubled to £93m in 2023

Tories and Labour boosted by mega-donors, and fundraising gap between two parties appears to be narrowing

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'Absolute disgrace': Met Police officer sacked after sharing racist rape fantasy

David Seager has been sacked after sending a white supremacist rape fantasy to a woman he was dating

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Income tax likely to go up if national insurance scrapped, Hunt suggests

Labour says chancellor’s ambition to eventually abolish NI would cost £46bn a year, and party questions how move would be paid for

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UK politics: Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – as it happened

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measure

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Hunt’s £20 billion Budget shortfall leaves scrapping national insurance for the birds, warns the IFS

Top economist Paul Johnson says both Tories and Labour need to be more transparent about painful choices ahead

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Hunt redefines ‘levelling up’ with focus on Cambridge, Canary Wharf and Surrey

Critics say extra funding to key battleground constituencies proves government ‘happy to ignore regional inequality’

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Tory levelling up has been a scam. Here are three things Labour can do to make it actually mean something

Keir Starmer’s party should make councils sustainable, bring local transport into public control – and build new universities, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

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‘We deserve better’: what the papers say about Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election budget

UK front pages are split in their verdicts, with some calling it ‘desperate’ and others declaring the economy ‘ready for take off!’

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Budget 2024: UK taxes head for highest level since 1948 despite Hunt’s NI cut

Borrowing and stealth taxes fund £14bn giveaway, but public spending squeeze looms after election

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Blur drummer Dave Rowntree selected as Labour candidate for general election

Labour candidate will stand in Mid Sussex against Conservatives who currently hold seat

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The Guardian view on the budget: plans to placate backbench critics, not meet the nation’s needs

Editorial: Raising taxes and cutting public spending won’t generate the investment to lift living standards and productivity

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‘It won’t shift the polls’: Tory MPs rue budget that lacked pre-election pizzazz

Headline cut to national insurance rate echoes measure taken in autumn statement, which made little impact on voters

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Hunt faces Scottish MPs’ revolt over energy firm windfall tax extension

Scottish Conservatives leader vows to vote against chancellor’s decision to lengthen levy to 2029

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Jeremy Hunt gave us a hit-and-run budget. But unlike cornered chancellors past, he showed no shame

The Tories can see the writing on the wall – so they are intent on wrecking things for an incoming Labour government, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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‘It’s not enough’: voters in Hartlepool unimpressed by budget – and Tories

People in ‘red wall’ town that elected a Conservative MP in 2021 do not expect to feel benefit of budget measures amid cost of living worries

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Jeremy Hunt’s cynical budget is the last, desperate gasp of a dying government

Many Conservative MPs fighting to hold on to their seats will be asking the chancellor: ‘Is this all you’ve got?’, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

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The only real giveaway in Jezza’s fictional budget was the despair on Tory faces

Taxes are going up, not down. Growth is going down, not up. And in the end, Hunt’s ramblings didn’t even convince his own side

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‘We all know how her show ends’: Jeremy Hunt’s worst budget day jokes

Labour’s Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves were used as punchlines in the chancellor’s sometimes obscure jokes

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Jeremy Hunt’s last budget before an election – but not his last roll of the dice

These latest tax cuts were not the gamechanger the Tories need before the election

Evening Standard

Where is Lindsay Hoyle and why was the deputy speaker chairing the budget?

Sir Lindsay has faced calls for his resignation following his controversial decision to allow a vote on a Labour amendment to an opposition day motion on the Gaza conflict

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Sunak and Hunt’s last stand? Our panel responds to the Tories’ spring budget

Will the tax cuts at the heart of the chancellor’s make-or-break budget give his party any hope?

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Tories have 'maxed out the national credit card', warns Labour leader Keir Starmer in Budget response

Sir Keir Starmer said the Conservatives were leaving working people worse off

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Budget key points: What did Jeremy Hunt announce?

A National Insurance Cut and ‘British ISA’ were among the headline measures

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