BUDGET 2020 AT A GLANCE: The key points of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s crucial speech as it happens By Alex Sebastian For This Is Money Published: 12:26 GMT, 11 March 2020 | Updated: 12:39 GMT, 11 March 2020 As the newly-installed Chancellor Rishi Sunak gets to his feet to deliver his and this Government’s first Budget … Read more
Rishi Sunak headed for the Commons to deliver his crucial first Budget under the shadow of coronavirus today. The Chancellor posed with his team outside 11 Downing Street as he pledged the measures he will set out in full this afternoon will give those on the ‘front line’ fighting the spread of the deadly disease … Read more
Rishi Sunak will today pledge billions to shore up the economy during the coronavirus outbreak. The Chancellor, whose first Budget has had to be rewritten as the deadly virus spreads, will unveil a string of measures to try to save solid businesses from bankruptcy. He will also announce a massive £600billion boost for infrastructure. Treble … Read more
Rishi Sunak will use his first Budget tomorrow to turn on the Treasury’s spending taps and pledge to invest ‘hundreds of billions of pounds’ on improving the UK’s critical infrastructure. The new Chancellor will announce plans to invest ‘record amounts’ in the nation’s roads, railways, broadband, housing and research. The government wants the spending spree … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will use £100m of Budget to toughen up community sentences by imposing stricter curfews on newly-released prisoners and handing them ‘sobriety tags’ Rishi Sunak to ‘toughen up community sentences’ in Britain’s budget tomorrow Chancellor will set aside £100million to bolster the probation service Convicted criminals released from prison will face tighter constraints … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak vows to end patchy phone reception and slow broadband in rural areas with £1bn 4G deal that will see biggest boosts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announced £1billion deal with firms to boost 4G Over 280,000 properties expected to benefit from improved phone signals Biggest improvements to … Read more
Rishi Sunak (pictured in Downing St last month) warned that UK plc is set for a ‘shock’ as the killer disease spreads around the globe The Budget will stop coronavirus wreaking permanent damage to the economy and give the NHS ‘whatever it needs’, the Chancellor vowed today. Rishi Sunak warned that UK plc is set … Read more
Chancellor Rishi Sunak vows to protect the economy from coronavirus with support for businesses in case employees fall sick Rishi Sunak suggested his financial plan would now focus on ‘economic security’ He added that he was ‘not daunted’ by the challenge of protecting UK’s finances Said the country is ‘well prepared’ and would ’emerge on the … Read more
End of the tampon tax: Chancellor Rishi Sunak will axe the unpopular levy on sanitary products in his first Budget Widely-unpopular levy will be axed when Britain exits the transition period EU law has prevented members from reducing rate below five per cent It treated tampons and sanitary pads as luxury items and not essential … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Rishi Sunak is on a tricky flight path as coronavirus picks his pocket before first budget By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 The collapse of Flybe into administration is a crisis for the airline’s millions of passengers and its … Read more