Just five tickets left to this evening's Budget event in Westmimster where The Times team will be discussing the fallout. Steven Swinford, Patrick Macguire, Mehreen Khan and me: bar opens 6.30pm, event starts 7pm

Just five tickets left to this evening's Budget event in Westmimster where The Times team will be discussing the fallout. Steven Swinford, Patrick Macguire, Mehreen Khan and me: bar opens 6.30pm, event starts 7pm

ICYMI Yesterday's budget reaction on @LBC Andrew Marr with guests Call Kemi Badenoch Cross Question with Dan Tomlinson MP, Dame Harriett Baldwin MP, Fraser Nelson & Paul Nowak https://t.co/HTJ5xHdV0w

My 15-point guide to the Budget small print:

Rachel Reeves' budget brought pain - but no purpose. A fateful combination, says Danny Finkelstein:- https://t.co/kCiBpepLlO

"Rachel Reeves’s budget is the third-largest tax raid since 2010. She has been responsible for two of them. Her first was careless; the second a £26 billion attempt to fix her mistakes; a third would be political suicide". Mehreen Khan's verdict:- https://t.co/mIBsw00yIW

My 15-point guide to the Budget small print:

OBR forecasts another record high in sickness benefit spending. Costs will reach £103.6bn in 2029-30 This up from the £97.7bn forecast in March when govt was planning welfare reform - and even higher than the £100.7bn forecast at last year's budget

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Snap budget analysis here. If you thought the sums were tricky, try the politics. https://t.co/tUb4UGzsZF

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Reeves has kept faith with her party. More welfare, overall tax at an all-time high: But the wider economic cost? More unemployment, anaemic growth in living standards, big drop in personal savings. You might even call it austerity. My Times column:- https://t.co/DltkhquwBu

The full cost of surging sickness benefit claims is £100bn by the next election. OBR today says costs may rise by another £11bn if current increase rate is not slowed.

OBR welfare costs projection: rising £73bn to £406bn over five years...

Cost of special needs education surging, says OBR

I wrote this about why I am a pessimist about democracy. Modern democracy is a recent, relatively untested and historically very weird phenomenon. Above all it is the product of some highly unusual historical circumstances that no longer obtain. https://t.co/1JchWsO9VM

THE BUDGET 2025 Here's everything we know about today's Budget, from the dozen plus tax rises to the cost-of-living giveaways and increase in spending on welfare: TAX * Freezing income tax thresholds for two more years until 2030, raising £8bn to £10bn. The biggest tax rise

IT'S HERE: The eve of Budget episode of The State of It, the scoop-packed political podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times With @patrickkmaguire @Gabriel_Pogrund * How Rachel Reeves will try to win over Labour MPs on the cost of living - fuel duty freeze, increase in

The best briefing you'll have on tomorrow's Budget has now dropped: latest episode of The State of It, from the politics team at The Times and The Sunday Times https://t.co/vgZlN8Fjhw

Sound advice from David Lammy to David Lammy

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