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Boris Johnson announces huge rise in defence funding
Boris Johnson is calling it a “once in a generation” plan to modernise the armed forces
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FactCheck: Is this a green revolution?
Boris Johnson’s environment strategy has been billed as a “green industrial revolution”. But only a quarter of the £12bn of government spending announced this week is really new money.
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FactCheck: ministers’ confusing free school meals defence
The government is facing pressure to change course – including from some Conservative MPs.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s questionable universal credit claim
The government didn’t offer us any evidence that it lifted 200,000 people out of absolute poverty.
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‘UK has had two once in a lifetime shocks in slightly over a decade – OBR’s Robert Chote
The collapse in economic output could mean the government has to borrow a startling £372 billion pounds this year.
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FactCheck: questions remain over Zac Goldsmith’s taxpayer-funded letter to constituents
The Conservative minister told the Parliamentary watchdog he had “never made use of this facility before”.
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Chancellor unveils £30 billion giveaway, including VAT cut and meal vouchers
It wasn’t called a budget, but with the raft of measures was much bigger than most fiscal statements.
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FactCheck: Johnson’s misleading figures on government ‘New Deal’
The Prime Minister suggested the ‘New Deal’ will pump £34bn into the NHS, but that’s not the case.
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FactCheck: has coronavirus destroyed more jobs than the Great Recession?
What we know so far about the effects of the crisis on unemployment.
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Coronavirus lockdown could be worst hit to UK economy since 18th century
Coronavirus lockdown could be be worst hit to UK economy since 18th century, that’s the stark warning in a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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Are people convinced by government’s levelling up agenda?
This looks like the biggest sustained give-away since the early nineties, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility.
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Coronavirus ‘unexpected and very serious challenge’ – Treasury Minister John Glen
We speak to the economic secretary to the treasury, John Glen – and ask him where all the money handed out in the budget was going to come from.
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Chancellor announces multi-billion package to combat coronavirus
Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was totally dominated by the fight against coronavirus
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Chancellor says the NHS to get whatever resources it needs to tackle Coronavirus
The impact of the coronavirus will doubtless dominate the Budget – when the new Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers it on Wednesday.
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Sajid Javid quits as chancellor
Today’s cabinet reshuffle suddenly got a lot more dramatic when Sajid Javid unexpectedly quit as chancellor – after Boris Johnson ordered him to fire his closest aides.