The Latest Breaking News from Budget

Himachal Pradesh Assembly Speaker Kuldeep Singh Pathania had disqualified the six MLAs on the Congress’ plea for “defying” the party whip that required them to be present in the House and vote for the budget.

While Economic Secretary Bim Afolami says voters won’t be ‘bribed’ by pre-election budget giveaways

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…

First-time buyers will be disappointed that some changes were not made in the Budget, some commentators said

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

Live video will be fed back to control rooms to help forces to decide resources required

OBR review concludes that the calculations it made about the cost of reversing the VAT free shopping scheme are still “reasonable”

Experts weigh in on what the Treasury could announce for London’s housing market

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…