Rachel Reeves has delivered a historic budget - Labour's first since 2010, the first ever from a female chancellor, and the biggest tax-raising fiscal event in more than 30 years. Watch and follow live reaction and analysis.
Well there we have it - the budget has finally come and gone, but like a Christmas turkey you can't finish in one sitting, it's certainly one we'll be chewing over for some time.Here are the main things you need to know from a historic fiscal event that even caught some of our experts off guard.
Rachel Reeves became the first female chancellor to deliver a budget, and made more history by delivering the biggest tax-raising fiscal event since John Major's government in 1993;She outlined £40bn in tax rises, most of which will come from a higher than expected £25bn increase in employers' national insurance contributions;Other tax plans include increasing stamp duty on second homes by two percentage points to 5%, the windfall tax on energy giants up to 38%, the expected...
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