Budget 2010

Down £9m

Unanimous decision

UK public borrowing rose to a record high in August, at £15.9bn, dwarfing the £12.51bn economists had predicted.

The Chancellor's key Budget announcements as they happened...

Threadneedle co-head of UK equities Simon Brazier examines the early moves by the coalition in tackling the deficit problem and how the UK has learnt lessons from Sweden and Canada.

Alistair Darling admitted last night that Labour's planned cuts in public spending will be "deeper and tougher" than Margaret Thatcher's in the 1980s, as the country's leading experts on tax and spending warned that Britain faces "two parliaments of pain"...

Notes from the Budget: Alistair Darling does it very well. I've sat through many, and he delivers clearly, directly, smoothly.

Today's Budget may have seemed like a long, drawn-out, predictable litany of banker-bashing and pre-election tax breaks, but hidden deep among the tedium was at least one bold announcement - that financial capability is to be taught as part of maths GCSE....

Real estate investment trusts (Reits) will be allowed to include stock dividends as part of their 90% income distribution requirements, Chancellor Alistair Darling has confirmed.

The Government has announced a consultation into the tax regime for investment trusts which will include rules on direct property investment.