The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) analysis estimates that 2.7 million people will stop paying the BBC licence fee by 2031

The chancellor is understood to be considering private finance initiatives used by Gordon Brown to bring defence spending up

The prime minister has spoken to ITV about his first 100 days in office

The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies warns that ‘no amount of temporary cost of living packages’ will fix the lack of household income growth, in a damning indictment of Andy Burnham’s approach to government

The chancellor vowed there would be a ‘reduction in the benefits bill’ before the next general election – and then Downing Street intervened

Economists warned Healey’s first budget offered only a ‘raft of fiddly measures but very little that will move the dial on growth’

In an eve-of-Budget video message, the chancellor has promised Britons ‘breathing space today, and fresh hope for the future’ in the face of rising bills

As John Healey prepares to deliver a ‘steady-as-she-goes Budget’, political editor David Maddox looks at why it may not be as dull as we have been led to believe

YouGov is the second pollster to put Reform on just 20 per cent in third place behind the Tories, while Labour’s 27 per cent would give them a small majority in an election

Political editor David Maddox looks at how Andy Burnham has ducked serious scrutiny in his first 100 days as PM and how the collapse in support for Reform could force him to call an early election

The chancellor said he wants to give families ‘a bit of breathing space’ in the wake of pressures from the conflict in the Middle East

Exclusive: Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget an influential group of female Labour MPs will publish a collection of essays telling the chancellor that he needs to make the economy work better for women if they want economic growth