(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/8RNRnjrVKcg ) As the post budget rumpus finally runs out of steam two closely related questions linger. What about the pound in our pockets? Where exactly is the growth coming from? While answers remain patchy and unconvincing one intriguing possibility keeps peeping from the sidelines. Maybe, just maybe, a seriously moneymaking reset of relations with the European Union. After all, it’s the Prime Minister himself who’s set the ball

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/mtTRxtcA6eA ) In one sense, budgets are all the same. A wheezing, limping race to the finishing bottom line. Exhausting but essential. Because behind the impenetrable mass of facts, figures and fulmination they are a defining pointer to what any government is doing. Or at least trying to. This latest foray can be chalked up as a victory – but only on one front. No question, Wednesday’s statement was decisive. By lifting tax levels t

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/RURWz05W3kM ) After what’s felt like the longest orgy in history of will-she won’t-she speculation about the 2025 budget, we’re finally going to know for ourselves this week. But it’ll take a bit longer than that to find out which bits will actually stick, and which will fall by the wayside. As our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports, Downing Street’s grip on events is looking increasingly fragile. Goes without saying tha

(Read on, or view here: https://youtu.be/6senVX4u-80 ) Where to now then? With the budget little over a week away the only thing we know is that we don’t know. How to balance the books without breaking a key pre-election promise? Anyone’s guess. Nor do we have any idea who turned the entire Downing Street operation inside out by suggesting Sir Keir Starmer was for the chop. But all these mysteries do feel seriously intertwined. To sort the money thing first, or at least take