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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Britain deserves more than mixed messaging and policy drift. After weeks of premature proposals, the chancellor must deliver a Budget that provides the confidence and coherence so far lacking in both her stewardship and Labour’s broader economic direction

Rachel Reeves told The Times Magazine this week that she was ‘sick of people mansplaining how to be Chancellor to me’.

TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wage

TUC calls on chancellor to focus on child poverty and upping minimum wage

Budgets need to be reassuringly dull with no repeat of this year’s long, drawn-out and chaotic buildup

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is grappling with weak economic growth, persistent inflation and an expected downgrade to official productivity forecasts.

Research shows members would back Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting over PM

As a well-informed MP on the frontline of the debate, Tony Vaughan’s views are particularly unwelcome to government

Party insiders are said to be alarmed by the research

From the outside, the run-up to Rachel Reeves’s announcement has looked chaotic, and many see the future of the chancellor and PM in the balance

Simon Case says voters will look elsewhere if chancellor cannot find solutions to tax, spending and debt problems