What time is the 2021 Budget? What Rishi Sunak is - and isn't - likely to unveil
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mirror.co.ukBritain's Covid response is one of the major subjects set to feature in today's 2021 Budget. Rishi Sunak is set to use his House of Commons speech to focus on four themes - "support, vision, recovery, honesty".
The Tory Chancellor is tipped to extend the stamp duty holiday, furlough scheme and other Covid support by three months, with the Universal Credit £20-a-week uplift expected to continue for another six months.
The Tory Chancellor could also announce a string of other measures to help the economy recover from the pandemic which has inflicted huge debt on the UK.
However he is also set to be "honest" about needing to recover £280billion of Covid spending, amid reports of a hike in corporation tax and income tax allowances frozen.
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