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Chancellor will pledge to make the UK a science and tech ‘superpower’

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

The chancellor is contending with rocketing inflation, mass industrial action and a cost-of-living crisis

At 12.30pm on Wednesday the Chancellor will deliver his first Budget in the Commons amid a backdrop of mass industrial action, sky-high inflation, and a cost-of-living crisis.

Government scales back Liz Truss plans for low-tax, low regulation zones

Rational reforms of our wildly unjust tax system could harvest huge sums, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Startling research by Labour found some mortgage holders are being forced to find an extra £642 every month in the wake of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's botched economic experiment

PM sparks backlash as foreign policy review stops short of classifying Beijing as a ‘threat’