Sky News looks at reaction to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's budget, which was designed to address immediate concerns around the rising cost of living as well as setting out a longer-term plan for growth and investment.
"We are so happy," she said."It will make an enormous difference to parents who were really struggling to afford those eye-watering fees."
Neil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, also told Sky News he was not"overly enamoured" with Mr Hunt's childcare plans. "It's one thing for one-year-olds and two-year-olds to be adequately funded, but we have such a massive shortfall in the existing three and four-year-old sector that frankly, we have relied on the one-year-olds and the two-year-olds to effectively prop up the short payment that came from government.
Raj Mody, global head of pensions at PwC, called the scrapping of the lifetime allowance a"really sensible decision".
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