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Britain Set For Tax-cutting Budget Before Election

Britain's Conservative government is on Wednesday expected to use a budget update to unveil tax cuts for millions of workers, in an attempt to woo voters before a general election.

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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

The Guardian - UK

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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Budget in five charts: what will underpin Jeremy Hunt’s statement?

Falling inflation and so-called fiscal headroom will guide a chancellor keen to heed calls from Tories for tax cuts

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘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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Two thirds of Londoners cut down on pub trips over rising alcohol costs

Distilleries are warning about “gin-flation” as the cost of producing spirits soars

Evening Standard

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…

Evening Standard

Take it from a former banker: the budget is for ordinary people. The mega-rich look on and laugh

Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it, says the author Gary Stevenson

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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

The Guardian - UK

First Official Event Announced For Princess Of Wales Since Surgery

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is set to attend her father-in-law King Charles III's birthday celebrations in June, the army said on Tuesday, her first official duty to be announced since undergoing surgery.

International Business Times

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,…

Evening Standard

King Charles gets back to work as he meets Jeremy Hunt ahead of Spring Budget

The monarch carried out the official duty at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday morning

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Warning unscrupulous landlords could use a loophole to avoid Airbnb-style short term lets crackdown

The Chancellor has announced tax perks for second home owners who rent out properties as holiday lets will be abolished

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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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UK spends least among major European economies on low-carbon energy policy, study shows

Britain spent about £26.2bn in three years on low-carbon measures, less than Italy, Germany, France and Spain, Greenpeace finds

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Britain’s AI sector expected to get £100m extra funding in budget

Jeremy Hunt to announce doubling of funding for research at the Alan Turing Institute

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NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS

Health spending in England to suffer 1.2% cut, worth £2bn, despite extra costs, thinktank’s analysis finds

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

OPINION - Jeremy Hunt can learn more from London Fashion Week than style tips

Last month we celebrated the 40th anniversary of London Fashion Week. With a technical recession just declared, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt may have had other things on his mind — but he should take notice, and not just for style tips.

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‘Heartbreaking’: the nursery forced to close over Hunt’s free childcare policy

Critics say the surprise policy in last spring budget’s was ill-thought-out, prompting higher prices and fewer nurseries

Evening Standard

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".

Evening Standard

Nursery leaders call for more funding amid fears 'biggest expansion of childcare in a generation' will fail

Free childcare plan ‘not even close to being workable’ early years leaders warn

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