Budget

Amid calls for the chancellor to reduce the UK’s spending on overseas aid, dozens of anti-poverty campaigners, dressed as George Osborne, take to Westminster to protest.

The cost of living goes up from 2.7 to 2.8 per cent in February, as Chancellor George Osborne adds the finishing touches to tomorrow’s budget.

Chancellor George Osborne faces his biggest test: how to revive a zombie economy – watch Channel 4 News and visit channel4.com/news for all the analysis of budget 2013 – Wednesday 20 March.

The chancellor will not win any popularity contests. But ahead of next week’s budget, Michael Crick asks if George Osborne is the man to bring life to the UK’s near-moribund economy.

I am “determined” to deal with the problem of cut-price alcohol sold by supermarkets, pledges David Cameron as he faces criticism from doctors for dropping a plan to bring in minimum pricing.

Even with some fiscal hocus pocus that gives the Treasury an extra £3.8bn, government borrowing in the year to date is still worse than this time last year. And that should worry the chancellor.

European Union leaders work through the night to agree a new long-term spending plan which will see a cut in the budget for the first time in the EU’s history.

Up to 5,300 soldiers are being made redundant from the army in the summer as part of the latest round of cuts to the armed forces, the government announces today.

As another committee considers how to tackle the problem of the UK’s ageing society, Channel 4 News instead looks on the bright side: at the potential benefits of having an older population.

Influential economic think tank the IFS warns of drastic cuts and a million more paying higher rate tax if the government is to make the books balance.