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Gary Gibbon
The former prime minister Gordon Brown passionately defends the tax credit system he created, but is less willing to pass comment on Jeremy Corbyn and his suitability as a future Labour PM.
Gary Gibbon
Allies of Iain Duncan Smith feel they have fought a feisty rearguard action after the Treasury came snooping round their universal credit money.
George Osborne sets out what the UK hopes to achieve from its EU renegotiation, saying that countries that are not members of the euro should not be discriminated against.
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron has made much of how the Commons has passed the tax credit changes and the Lords were defying the elected chamber when they voted against them on Monday.
Chancellor George Osborne says tax credit reforms will go ahead, despite the government’s dramatic defeat in the Lords on cuts for millions of low-income families.
Gary Gibbon
The prime minister and the chancellor are joined at the hip in a programme to own the centre ground and to shift it to the right at the same time.
George Osborne says the Conservatives abolished the slave trade, stopped children working in factories and invented chocolate. OK, we made that last one up.
Jon Snow
The exhibition by the great Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei at the Royal Academy is remarkable and dominated by the pressure and suffering the Chinese authorities have subjected him.
The Hinckley Point nuclear plant is a step closer after the chancellor announced a £2bn government guarantee on investment, but critics say it is a bad deal for taxpayers
George Osborne announces a £500m investment in the Faslane submarine base, while warning that Labour left-wingers and Scottish nationalists want to scrap Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
Siobhan Kennedy
You could argue that it’s us the taxpayer – the people who bailed out RBS in the first place – that should have been given first dibs to buy the shares.
Gary Gibbon
The asset sales being contemplated by Chancellor George Osborne only deliver some cuts and one-off benefits, briefly flattering the nation’s accounts.
Gary Gibbon
The Treasury says it’s secured a deal that stops the European Commission exposing the UK to potential future costs if Greece defaults on a new bridging loan.
A “lower-welfare, lower tax” budget, said the Chancellor. As usual, the small print didn’t quite match the rhetoric…
Chancellor George Osborne’s family business made £6m in a property deal with a developer based in a tax haven, Paul McNamara and Guy Basnett investigate.