The 2021 Budget will feature everything from booze, fuel and cigarettes to wages, housing and Britain's Covid response. Rishi Sunak will vow to do “whatever it takes” to support the British people and business through this “moment of crisis” when he addresses Parliament in his annual statement at 12.30pm.
He will then try to spin the results in a 5pm press conference - while journalists and experts are still poring over the detail - saying: "We’re using the full measure of our fiscal firepower to protect the jobs and livelihoods of the British people”.
The Tory Chancellor will extend furlough to September, and is tipped to extend the Stamp Duty cut and other Covid support by three months, and the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift by six
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