will remain unchanged. labour has criticised the budget for a lack of action on climate change or help for struggling families. our political editor laura kuenssberg is at westminster. budgets are always big, important days, notjust because of all the political hullabaloo, but because it is a moment where what the politicians are my really do have impacts on our lives and often very quickly. this was a day when rishi sunak showed himself again to be fond of spending public money. he had a bit more to play with because the economy seems to be in better shape than had been expected, but it was not exactly the kind of budget you might expect from someone who likes to see themselves as a light touch tory. the real question with inflation on the horizon, about whether all his good sounding promises will really match what they
but that won t help giovanni, with the chancellor resisting calls to remove vat from fuel bills. the chancellor needs to address these things. why are you doing this? why? why are you making people suffer? for those on low incomes, this budget is relatively good news if you re working. those changes to universal credit and the national living wage. but for those who are unable to work or who are looking for a job, there s a hard winter ahead. it is a swings and roundabouts budget, but kerry, out with her daughter, jess, today, is delighted by the focus on encouraging people into work. currently on universal credit, she says the chancellor has made it easier for her to take the plunge and set up her own business. work, to me, i mean, it keeps me. 0ne, sane, it s great that i can treat my children, and you know, i just want to work. i m pro work. so, this change to the universal credit and to national living wage, good news for you? good news for me, good news. shukdev also believes in w
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let s stop the state growing, let s stop spending so much of tax payers money, but in fact he has done the opposite. he has carried on spending and spending will keep going up in every sikh a bit of the government. he is also putting taxes up, and they will hit record levels, and therefore he is absolutely not going to please everybody in the conservative party, but for now, even though he likes to style himself as conservative with traditional instincts, he and boris johnson are presiding over an era of big government that looks like it is going to stay until at least the next general election. so, in political terms, one former minister evenjoked political terms, one former minister even joked that it felt like a labour budget. rishi sunak might not like the sound of that, but the political choices he and boris johnson have made today add up to something that looks rather different to a traditional conservative budget. and that seeming generosity that he would no doubt like the publ
put the heating on. i have to sit like this with my fleece on every day. you know, you re frightened to even put the water, run the water in the tap. low paid workers will now keep more of their universal credit, but that won t help giovanni, with the chancellor resisting calls to remove vat from fuel bills. the chancellor needs to address these things. why are you doing this? why are you making people suffer? for those on low incomes, this budget is relatively good news if you re working. there s changes to universal credit and the national living wage. but for those who are unable to work or who are looking for a job, a winter ahead. it is a swings and roundabouts budget, but is delighted by the focus on encouraging people into work. currently on universal credit, she says the chancellor has made it easier for her to take the plunge and set up her own business. work, to me, i mean, it gives me, what i m