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Budget 2012

The latest news and comment on the 2012 budget. For budget 2013 click here

April 2015

  • Britain's Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander (L) looks on as Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne holds the traditional red briefcase as he leaves for the Houses of Parliament from his official residence in Downing Street in central London March 21, 2012. He will deliver his 2012 Budget speech later today.  REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett (BRITAIN - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - RTR2ZNU2

    Conservatives accused of breathtaking hypocrisy by Danny Alexander

    Senior Liberal Democrat makes claim as divisions with former coalition partners during general election campaign deepen

February 2013

  • Children sit GCSEs

    Every coalition U-turn: the list in full

    As Michael Gove backs down over his plans for GCSEs, we list every about-face since the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government took power in 2010

December 2012

  • Budget household bills

    The people's panel
    Write for us on … your weekly budget

    The people's panel
    The people's panel: How do you manage your household budget? We'd like to share details of four of our readers' weekly outgoings

August 2012

  • As Denis Healey said, when you're in a hole, stop digging

    Wintour and Watt blog
    Nick Clegg: extra welfare cuts can only be made if rich pay up too

    Nicholas Watt: Nick Clegg is proposing a wealth tax amid fears that George Osborne will target poor with £10bn in welfare cuts

June 2012

  • David Cameron

    Michael White's political briefing
    Cameron's daughter-left-in-pub incident: is the PM just too 'chillaxed'?

  • George Osborne

    George Osborne: I got it wrong on some budget measures

  • George Osborne

    Cameron: budget errors left government 'ploughing into brick wall'

  • David Cameron being interviewed for The Andrew Marr Show

    Cameron: government's U-turns a sign of 'resolve, strength and grit'

May 2012

  • George Osborne

    Government confirms U-turn on charity tax

  • George Osborne

    Charities hope for latest U-turn on donations

  • George Osborne Ken Clarke

    Politics blog
    Tax U-turns: why James Bond is like a Cornish pasty

  • George Osborne

    Ministers 'preparing for rethink on charity tax relief'

  • Ken Clarke 'chillaxes' at the cricket as the coalition makes new U-turns

  • Market Forces blog
    Pasty tax U-turn boosts Greggs shares

  • A brief history of the pasty tax

  • George Osborne forced into pasty tax U-turn

  • UK Uncut targets 'architects of austerity' with weekend street parties

  • The Northerner
    Stop the Caravan Tax say Tory and Labour MPs

  • The Northerner
    Pasties, grannies - and now caravan tax adds to Budget blunders

  • Top rate tax cut would have 'very large cost'

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