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Budget 2026 live: chancellor says scrapping of gas standing charges will save 60% of homes £45 a year

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The Guardian · Reino Unido · Prensahace 1 día

John Healey says UK faces ‘difficult moment’ as he prepares to deliver first budget of Andy Burnham’s governmentYou be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the booksGood morning. When Andy Burnham became PM, he signalled that he wanted to end 40 years of neoliberalism.

Judging by all the briefing about what will be in the budget today, neoliberalism is probably safe for another year or so because Burnham and his chancellor, John Healey, have decided not to use this as a moment for big, transformative change, but to instead opt for a more low-risk, every-little-bit-helps fiscal statement. There are radical elements in the Burnham agenda, but mostly they will have to wait for another day.

In a video setting the scene for the budget, Healey sums it up with the slogan: “Breathing space today, and fresh hope for the future.”Here is Pippa Crerar and…

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The ‘breathing space budget’ – breathing space for the government, that is | John Crace

John Healey aced the morning-after media round because his Martin Lewis measures left nothing to challenge him on Maybe it had been one of the greatest acts of political genius after all. The day after the budget is usually the moment when things start to fall apart. When clued up journalists and economists have had a chance to go through all the fine points the chancellor would rather everyone had missed. The forecasts that suggest everything is predicated on a wing and a prayer. The hidden unfunded tax cuts. The greater than expected spending commitments. But on Thursday morning Andy Burnham and John Healey could afford themselves a sigh of relief. All had gone about as well as they could have hoped. It turns out that when you don’t make any massive tax or spending commitments, there isn’t a great deal to unravel. All there had been was a raft…

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