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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Ellie Kemp

When is the budget and what might be in it?

It will soon be time for the Chancellor to set out the budget to the House of Commons. The autumn financial statement will outline the state of the economy and the government's proposals for changes to taxation.

It will also include forecasts for the economy by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which provides independent analysis of the UK's public finances. It's been a turbulent few months at No. 10, with a change of Prime Minister and Cabinet following a mini-budget which crashed the market.

The Bank of England also raised interest rates to three percent last week, the highest they've been since the recession in 2008., as it warned that the country is facing the longest recession in more than a century. The contents of this year's budget have been under much speculation.

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