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’