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Budget 2008

May 2008

  • Brown risks £2.7bn tax cut to end revolt

    PM unveils surprise £2.7bn package of tax cuts designed to end the 10p tax band rebellion

  • Spared at the pumps - but hit in the showroom

    Drivers are coming under increasing pressure to switch to low-carbon-emitting cars

  • Cold comfort for users of heating oil

    The Treasury will help poor gas customers - but rural homes with no access to the mains are left to struggle with huge bills alone, writes Lisa Bachelor

    • Now that's what I call a storm...

    • William Keegan's in my view
      Lord, make us virtuous – but not now. We can't stop borrowing yet

      William Keegan
    • Ruth Sunderland's business comment
      Stability? That was a lifetime ago, Darling

      Ruth Sunderland
  • Polly Toynbee

    There is nothing dull about a budget that rescues thousands from poverty

    Polly Toynbee
  • James Purnell

    2.6m on incapacity benefits face tough 'back to work' tests

  • Better times

  • Public finances £7bn worse than predicted

  • Budget of cut-price measures

  • Innovation to be encouraged

  • Alistair Darling leaves 11 Downing Street

    Treasury has no room to manoeuvre, IFS warns

  • Mixture of warnings about climate change, backing for airport expansion and delayed fuel tax rise infuriates environmentalists

  • 13.03.08: Steve Bell on the budget

    Politics Weekly UK
    Politics Weekly podcast: Old Mother Hubbard

  • £1.7bn package welcomed by campaigners

  • Shops get a year to cut down or face a levy

  • Treasury to pay extra £2bn for surging cost of war

  • New taxes on gas-guzzlers will raise an extra £1.2bn

  • Brown mannerisms, rose-tinted forecasts but few green measures

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