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Budget 2017 (March)

August 2017

  • Children Playing in the forest school garden at Cambridge Day Nursery

    Looking forward to those 30 hours of free nursery care? Think again …

    The government’s flagship childcare policy launches on 1 September. But already parents and providers fear that it just can’t work

May 2017

  • Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison talks to media as he arrives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Morrison says he will outline a budget for the next fiscal year that will be fair and rein in mounting debt. (AP Photos/Rod McGuirk)

    ‘We’ve been listening’: Scott Morrison expresses empathy ahead of budget 2017 – video

    Treasurer Scott Morrison concedes ‘Australians have been making big sacrifices to ensure that we’ve achieved the growth that we’ve had’
  • Labor senator Sam Dastyari introduces ‘Prime Minister Trumball’ a fictitious character played by comedian Lawrence Mooney, at Senate doors on Tuesday morning

    'Prime Minister Trumbull' addresses media in run-up to budget 2017 – video

    Labor senator Sam Dastyari introduces ‘Prime Minister Trumbull’, a fictitious character played by comedian Lawrence Mooney
  • Julie Bishop and Gerry Brownlee

    Student fees spat won't harm 'superb' Australia and New Zealand friendship

    Gerry Brownlee, NZ’s foreign affairs minister, says anger over proposed budget measures would be ‘worked out’

April 2017

  • Road sign

    How to start a social care revolution in seven easy steps

    Katie Johnston
  • Theresa May

    The Guardian view on bereavement benefit cuts: cruel, stingy, wrong

30 March 2017

  • Chancellor Philip Hammond was forced to make a U-turn on his announcement of tax rise for self employed after revolt from his Conservative party colleagues.

    Hammond was right to raise tax for self-employed, inquiry to say

    Official review favours chancellor’s aborted budget pledge and levelling of taxation for different class of workers, MPs told

25 March 2017

  • Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon

    Reports of my death
    Clive James: ‘Coogan and Brydon are the funniest couple since Laurel and Hardy’

    The extras do uncanny impersonations of corpses, and sometimes can’t keep it up

17 March 2017

  • Food delivery riders in Bordeaux, France

    If big business is to thrive, it needs a strong welfare state

    Phil McDuff
    The entrepreneurial spirit cannot flourish if people don’t feel valued, rewarded and, above all, sheltered from severe economic turbulence

16 March 2017

  • Budget 2017<br>Chancellor Philip Hammond and Prime Minister Theresa May listen to Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell speaking in the House of Commons, London, after the Chancellor told MPs that the Government will not proceed with the increase in National Insurance contributions for the self-employed set out in the Budget. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday March 15, 2017. The Chancellor said he would not proceed with the planned 2% increase in Class 4 NICs which he announced just a week ago. See PA story POLITICS Budget. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

    Tories condemn May over chancellor's national insurance humiliation

    Prime minister accused of shabby treatment of Philip Hammond, while one ex-minister says there is ‘a battle for the future of our party’
  • The prime minister, Theresa May

    Theresa May declares 'absolute faith' in Hammond after U-turn

    Prime minister backs chancellor after decision to drop national insurance rates policy that sparked backbench revolt
  • Simon Jenkins

    May hung Hammond out to dry over his budget U-turn

    Simon Jenkins
    Failing to back up a minister in trouble leaves the prime minister a pushover for backbenchers with a grievance

15 March 2017

  • Philip Hammond

    Philip Hammond defends scrapping national insurance rise for the self-employed

  • Martin Rowson cartoon 16.03.17

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Martin Rowson on Philip Hammond’s budget U-turn – cartoon

  • Budget 2017<br>Chancellor Philip Hammond arrives back in Downing Street, London, after he committed a dramatic U-turn over his planned Budget hike in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for the self-employed. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Wednesday March 15, 2017. In a letter to Conservative MPs, the Chancellor said he would not proceed with the planned 2% increase in Class 4 NICs which he announced just a week ago. See PA story POLITICS Budget. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

    The Guardian view on the budget U-turn: a climbdown that shows where power lies

  • Philip Hammond, the chancellor.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Hammond says BBC's Laura Kuenssberg first warned of problem with broken manifesto promise - Politics live

  • The budget U-turn is a disaster for May – and a win for the Tory right

    Rafael Behr

  • Hammond's NICs U-turn is a political disaster for the government

    Larry Elliott Economics editor

  • PMQs verdict: Corbyn fails dismally to exploit U-turn on national insurance

14 March 2017

  • Theresa May with students and teacher

    Free school funding will create fraction of places pledged in budget, says Labour

    Cash Philip Hammond committed for Conservatives’ flagship policy will pay for just 13,000 new places, party claims
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