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Music plays and the next president of zimbabwe, emmerson mnangagwa, is back in the country and will be sworn in on friday. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news countdown to midnight the ashes series gets underway. England captainjoe root says theyre ready to go. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A britain fit for the future thats what the chancellor has promised in todays budget. It had a few giveaways but was delivered against the backdrop of a faltering economy with lower than expected growth and falling productivity. Among Philip Hammonds announcements from now, First Time ...

A budget as the leaves turned brown was Kenneth Clarke back in 1996. The following year, labours new chancellor, a young chap called gordon brown, delivered a summer budget following his partys landslide election victory. After that, budgets took place in the early spring and have remained there ever since. Until today. Well, just a few minutes ago, the chancellor emerged from number 11 downing street with the special red box containing the budget speech. The red box goes all the way back to gladstone when he was chancellor. The chancellor was accompanied by his treasury team, including elizab...

Were at westminster in our Budget Studio on the day chancellor Philip Hammond delivered his first budget. As the government prepares to start the process of leaving the eu within weeks the chancellor said the budget prepared britain for a brighter future. Borrowing forecasts have been revised downwards for the next few years. Theres more money for social care in england and a controversial move to raise National Insurance contributions for Self Employed workers. Labour accused the chancellor of producing a Budget Of Utter Complacency which ignored a crisis in Public Services. Well have details...

When we are doing automatic adjustments . With that said i think it would be an improvement however we did it so if we to indexing when it came to when it came to individual parameters that would make sense as well. One thing i would notice we should be sure to index both the benefit side and the revenue side as in fact Peter Diamond suggests. To be critical of such an automatic mechanism would not simply be solvency. Our Current System would probably be made solvent. Congress will just get around to it later and focus changes on later generations. So the idea here is to spread the adjustment ...

Now lets go over to westminster and join that bbc special on the budget with andrew neil. It is budget day, thejohnson government unveils its new plans, with special emphasis on its new voters in the midlands and the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in the job, the north. But for a rookie chancellor, only 28 days in thejob, the biggest challenge is the growing Economic Impact of the coronavirus, and what he can do to vaccinate the economy from it. With me for this politics live budget special Political Editor laura kuennssberg, Business Editor simonjack, and economics editor fa...