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Budget 2007

April 2009

  • Larry Elliott, economics editor

    Budget 2007: the overweening pride that came before calamitous fall

    Larry Elliott, economics editor

    Larry Elliott: One thing is certain: the speech will bear little resemblance to that delivered by Gordon Brown just over two years ago

April 2007

  • MPs demand budget transparency

    3.30pm: The House of Commons Treasury committee said the government should be clearer in future about how changes made in the budget affected families and individuals. By Graeme Wearden.

  • Heather Stewart

    Heather Stewart's business comment
    Gordon's gift: some smoke, all mirrors

    Heather Stewart

    The Budget headlines are all about the tax cuts, but some careful watchers are accusing the Chancellor of sleight of hand, writes Heather Stewart.

  • Ruth Sunderland's business comment
    Brown's legacy looks good - at least on the surface

    Ruth Sunderland

    Ruth Sunderland: Gordon Brown's swansong Budget was meant to be a political tour de force but ended up as a con trick.

    • Education sums don't add up

    • William Keegan's in my view
      From red, to green, to blue: is Brown showing his true colours?

      William Keegan
    • The premier in waiting has much to prove

  • A mixed bag from the chancellor

    Letters: Disability Alliance is disappointed that, beyond welfare reform proposals that look to move disabled people closer to work, there is almost nothing in the budget that even begins to deal with the ungenerous welfare benefits system (Report, March 22).

  • Half of voters believe budget makes them worse off, says poll

    Almost half of all voters believe that they will be worse off as a result of the budget, despite a 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax, according to an opinion poll today.

    • Changes force more reliance on tax credits, says thinktank

    • Budget was fair to people, says Brown

    • How red is Brown?

  • £50m to help save Africans at risk from deforestation

  • I bear no grudges, claims Brown

  • David Walker

    The bigger picture

    David Walker
  • Sale of debt raises fears of commercial rates of interest

  • 600,000 over 65s to be exempt from income tax

  • Package to lift 200,000 children out of poverty is welcomed but more investment is vital, say family groups

  • £6bn for collapsed schemes fails to satisfy campaigners

  • Fears that TV spectrum will be used as cash cow

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