Sunak faces calls to do more to tackle UK slowdown – much to his frustration

Chancellor resists demands for more subsidies despite cost of living crisis

Cost of living crisis: Rishi Sunak must at the very least raise UK benefits

One in three Britons will be unable to afford the cost of living this year – help is needed now for the worst off

Johnson’s political cowardice applies brake to cheap energy as he bets on nuclear

PM tiptoes around onshore wind power in deference to backbenchers while his nuclear plan remains questionable

Labour says Rishi Sunak must ‘come clean’ about wife’s non-dom tax status

Keir Starmer says it would be ‘breathtaking hypocrisy’ if Akshata Murty was using schemes to reduce tax

National insurance rise forces UK employers to shoulder £9bn tax burden

Bosses say 1.25-point rise heaps pressure on firms already enduring soaring costs linked to Covid and Brexit

Sunak pours scorn on the OBR’s dire warnings – but the facts speak for themselves

The chancellor would prefer forecasts to be more upbeat, but the economic outlook is unremittingly bleak

Tories fear poll disaster over high taxes

• MPs turn on Rishi Sunak over living costs crisis• Cut taxation not the deficit, chancellor told

Covid spending fuelled faster growth in UK economy in late 2021, ONS says

Upward revision in annual GDP growth, despite Omicron denting output over Christmas

‘Do you think people are stupid?’ Sunak shrugged. Of course he did

Sunak veered from the fantasy that he was cutting taxes to cold hard reality when admitting Brexit has made the UK poorer

‘Do you think people are stupid?’ MPs challenge Sunak over income tax cut planned for election year – as it happened

Latest updates: chancellor faces Commons Treasury committee amid criticism over his spring statement

Sunak under pressure over wife’s Russia-related ‘blood money’ dividends

Akshata Murthy has a 0.91% stake in Infosys, founded by her father, which continues to operate in the country

Tories fall back on tribal pull of Brexit

After Rishi Sunak’s spring statement, the party can no longer rely on the economy to bolster support, so old battle lines are being redrawn

The Observer view on Rishi Sunak’s spring statement

The chancellor had the opportunity to address Britain’s spiralling poverty but callously chose not to take it

Sunak’s ‘jam tomorrow’ offer won’t taste sweet in 2024

The chancellor is keen to show he’s a tax cutter, but with war and the aftermath of Covid, who will believe his 1p reduction is in any way affordable?

From milk to shoes, these are the everyday items hit by soaring UK prices

As households face the biggest drop in living standards since the 1950s, five images show the scale of the cost of living crisis