Budget 2017 (March)

Looking forward to those 30 hours of free nursery care? Think again …

The government’s flagship childcare policy launches on 1 September. But already parents and providers fear that it just can’t work

Donna Ferguson

26, Aug, 2017 @11:04 PM

How we can start a social care revolution in seven easy steps | Katie Johnston

The budget’s £2bn for social care is a short-term fix that masks the true scale of the crisis. We need to transform funding, commissioning and provision

Katie Johnston

10, Apr, 2017 @7:50 AM

The Guardian view on bereavement benefit cuts: cruel, stingy, wrong | Editorial

Editorial: Theresa May sacked George Osborne and promised to do everything differently. It doesn’t look like it from here

Editorial

02, Apr, 2017 @6:20 PM

Hammond was right to raise tax for self-employed, inquiry to say

Official review favours chancellor’s aborted budget pledge and levelling of taxation for different class of workers, MPs told

Simon Goodley and Robert Booth

30, Mar, 2017 @6:06 AM

Clive James: ‘Coogan and Brydon are the funniest couple since Laurel and Hardy’

The extras do uncanny impersonations of corpses, and sometimes can’t keep it up

Clive James

25, Mar, 2017 @8:00 AM

If big business is to thrive, it needs a strong welfare state | Phil McDuff

The entrepreneurial spirit cannot flourish if people don’t feel valued, rewarded and, above all, sheltered from severe economic turbulence

Phil McDuff

17, Mar, 2017 @8:59 AM

Tories condemn May over chancellor's national insurance humiliation

Prime minister accused of shabby treatment of Philip Hammond, while one ex-minister says there is ‘a battle for the future of our party’

Heather Stewart Political editor

16, Mar, 2017 @8:29 PM

Theresa May declares 'absolute faith' in Hammond after U-turn

Prime minister backs chancellor after decision to drop national insurance rates policy that sparked backbench revolt

Peter Walker Political correspondent

16, Mar, 2017 @4:56 PM

May hung Hammond out to dry over his budget U-turn | Simon Jenkins

Failing to back up a minister in trouble leaves the prime minister a pushover for backbenchers with a grievance

Simon Jenkins

16, Mar, 2017 @6:00 AM

Philip Hammond defends scrapping national insurance rise for the self-employed

Chancellor performs U-turn on much-criticised budget tax grab, accepting that it breached wording of Tory manifesto

Heather Stewart and Peter Walker

15, Mar, 2017 @8:26 PM

The Guardian view on the budget U-turn: a climbdown that shows where power lies | Editorial

Editorial: Philip Hammond was right to reopen the question of national insurance contributions by the self-employed. But the press and backbench Tory MPs would not let him

Editorial

15, Mar, 2017 @6:45 PM

Hammond says BBC's Laura Kuenssberg first warned of problem with broken manifesto promise - Politics live

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs and David Davis giving evidence to the Brexit committee

Andrew Sparrow

15, Mar, 2017 @5:27 PM