Chancellor George Osborne is heralding Britain’s economic recovery. But can you feel it? Latest analysis and video in our budget 2014 live blog.
The new £1 will be the first time the circle of copper, zinc and nickel will get a makeover since it replaced the one pound banknote in 1983. But is it a case of penny wise pound foolish?
From pensions to pints – answer the questions in the Channel 4 News quiz to find out how you have won, or lost out, in George Osborne’s latest budget.
The £1 coin is to be replaced with a new 12-sided version, shaped like the old “threepenny bit”, in a bid to tackle forgery, the government announces.
Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his fifth budget on Wednesday. It is bound to include measures that could not have been predicted, but here is what we can expect.
For years, those with money in savings accounts have received a raw deal. Now the chancellor, with the 2015 election in mind, has unveiled a budget for savers and pensioners.
George Osborne is under the focus of the media lens like never before today. Check out our interactive 360 degree photograph of him as he prepares to give his budget to parliament.
After years of lacklustre growth, the recovery appears to be taking off at last. Good news for Chancellor George Osborne, but even he is not celebrating yet.
“I think that is right” – Ed Balls agrees that politicians have to enshrine budget pledges in law in order to get the public to trust them. Watch his only interview at 6:30pm on Channel 4 News.
Gary Gibbon
George Osborne said he wanted to warn about “a dangerous new complacency” that he’d sensed on the economy. Privately, he and others at the top of the Tory party think they may have contributed to this.
Nick Clegg criticises George Osborne’s plans to fix the British economy with deep cuts to the welfare budget, saying the chancellor is heaping the burden on those with the “narrowest shoulders”.
Gary Gibbon
The chancellor had his revised growth updates to wave at Labour today but the cost of living indicators which Ed Miliband has got him looking at are a little bit more precarious.
As George Osborne hails a small upturn in the economy, Darshna Soni revisits the town of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, to find out what people there whether they can tell the difference.
The spending round contained some surprises and innovations, Economics Editor Faisal Islam reports.
Gary Gibbon
The government will be trumpeting new money for infrastructure projects, but there’s no disguising the bad news coming down the track.