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Even Tory voters won’t be fooled by the tax cuts in Jeremy Hunt’s fairytale budget

The public would rather the chancellor prioritised spending on threadbare public services over tax giveaways, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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What to expect from Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget

The chancellor’s biggest giveaway is likely to be a further cut to national insurance contributions

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Train government ministers properly and leave them in post, says ex-cabinet secretary

Former civil service boss Mark Sedwill blames constant rotation of personnel and lack of proper teaching for poorer strategic thinking

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Jeremy Hunt’s Surrey office vandalised with ‘die Tory scum’ graffiti

Chancellor’s constituency office in Hindhead was defaced on eve of his spring budget statement

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Jeremy Hunt defies public services alarm with pre-election budget tax cuts

Chancellor set to cut 2p off national insurance but some Tories say more is needed to bolster election chances

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The end is nigh! Kill me now! The Sunaks have done the Grazia video

PM fires starting gun on election end days with revelations about his bed-making fervor and dishwasher loading skills

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Peter Christie obituary

Other lives: Pioneering Green party councillor and mayor who was also an authority on the history of North Devon

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Budget Crisis Forces UK's Birmingham Towards Service Cuts, Tax Hikes

Councillors in the UK's second-largest city Birmingham were poised Tuesday to approve tax hikes and deep cuts to public services that could include axed arts funding and reduced rubbish collection, as the city fights to avoid bankruptcy.

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‘Bring back Thatcher’: voters in ‘blue wall’ voice scepticism before budget

Trip through M3 corridor’s traditionally Conservative seats finds distrust of politicians and discontent over range of issues

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OPINION - Pubs all over London are facing last orders, but the Budget could save them

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…

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Jeremy Hunt to cut national insurance by 2p in budget

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

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OPINION - Tax cuts in the Budget are a gamble — but what else has Jeremy Hunt got in his locker?

Budgets resemble the old French saying about taxation — the aim is to produce the maximum amount of fiscal feathers from the goose with the minimum amount of hissing. However, hissing is what a disgruntled and reactive Conservative party does best right now and the public-finance goose is a skinny,…

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Labour frontbencher makes bet on live TV that election will take place in May

Jonathan Ashworth agrees £10 bet with Sky News’s Kay Burley, and says winnings should be given to charity

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Ex-Post Office chair gives details of ‘stitch up’ which he says led to Badenoch making false claims about his sacking – as it happened

Letter from former Post Office chair Henry Staunton gives new details on conversations

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Jeremy Hunt ‘to cut national insurance and freeze fuel duty’ in budget; bitcoin hits record high over $69,000 – as it happened

Reports that chancellor will cut national insurance by a further two percentage points tomorrow, as UK private sector growth rises

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What are the UK’s ‘fiscal rules’ and why is the OBR under attack?

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

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The Guardian view on Treasury fiscal rules: no way to run a country

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

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The Ego has Landed: George Galloway basks in his swearing in as MP

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

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Life on benefits will not be an option under Labour, says Liz Kendall

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

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OPINION - Record-low Tory poll explains why there (probably) won't be a May election

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".

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Who might befriend George Galloway in parliament?

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

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OPINION - The Standard View: Worse than Major, Johnson and Truss, the Tories under Sunak hit a record low in the polls

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…

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OPINION - Tories face collapse at general election as voters worry about ‘bread and butter’ issues

Ipsos director of politics Keiran Pedley explains the dire position for the Conservatives

Evening Standard

Ex London minister Paul Scully to quit as MP before general election as Conservative exodus grows

Exclusive: Paul Scully said the perception among Londoners was that the Tory party was “being disrespectful” to the capital and had “lost focus”

International Business Times

UK Awaits Voter-friendly Budget Before Election

Britain's Conservative government unveils a pre-election budget Wednesday that could feature voter-friendly measures as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's party badly trails main opposition Labour in polls.

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