Details here on breakfast. Its sunday 3 march. Our top story The Chancellor, jeremy hunt, has tried to play down expectations about tax cuts in wednesdays budget, telling the Sunday Telegraph he has to act responsibly. With three days to go until mr hunt lays out his plans, the treasury says measures worth millions of pounds will be introduced to boost productivity in the public sector. Here is our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Police drones that can assess Road Traffic Accidents one solution chosen by The Chancellor as he takes an overview of the economy that doesnt make easy reading. But jeremy hunt says £800 million worth of Technology Like this will help to make police and hospitals more efficient and save almost £2 billion in five years it was time. Five years time. At a time when he has less money to play with them he would have hoped for, he is weighing up would have hoped for, he is weighing up what he can do to win votes. The chancellor is under pressure to make tax
Jeremy Hunt is considering cuts to national insurance rather than income tax in next week’s Budget and could announce a duty on vapes, reports suggest.
Could our National Insurance payments be cut by a fifth next week? The Chancellor is reportedly tempted to cut the main rate of NI on employees’ contributions from 10p in the pound to 8p in the Budget on March 6 a dramatic bid to catch voters’ attention and make a dent in Labour’s strong lead in the opinion polls.