National minimum wage to rise by 6.7% from April, Reeves confirms

Chancellor calls increase to £12.21 an hour a ‘significant step’, with 18- to 20-year-olds in line for a 16% increase

‘The rich need to pay more’: Britons’ hopes and fears for the budget

While some want Rachel Reeves to raise taxes for the wealthy, others fear the long-term sick could be penalised

Jeremy Hunt calls on government not to release OBR review into his spending plans

Former chancellor accuses Rachel Reeves of politicising Office for Budget Responsibility by release on budget day

Are you a fat cat or a working person? Find out in tomorrow’s budget

The debate over how to define workers will come back to haunt Rachel Reeves if she cannot convince the public that she’s acting in their interests, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Will bond vigilantes punish Rachel Reeves with a Truss-style market meltdown?

10-year gilt yields have risen in the past month but are within the range of other pre-budget periods

Starmer lost in the semantic weeds as he makes case for plugging the ‘black hole’

Two days before the budget, the British prime minister promises better days lie ahead – but first, some pain

Reeves’s radical change to fiscal rules could go further – New Zealand shows how

Nation follows net worth rules which count liabilities such as debt but also assets, including land, roads, hospitals and schools

OBR to publish breakdown of claimed £22bn ‘black hole’ on budget day

Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt says decision to publish findings of review on Wednesday is ‘significant concern’

The long-awaited Labour budget needs to show the party knows what to do with power

A strategy of raising taxes, spending and borrowing all at the same time to fund investment has risks, but it has a logic too

Labour’s tax rises will not hit workers’ payslips, minister vows

Bridget Phillipson says employees will not see higher taxes as Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver first Labour budget

Thousands are fined by HMRC even though they don’t owe any UK tax

Campaigners call for reform after more than 83,000 low earners are hit by HMRC penalties

UK to increase military presence in Indo-Pacific to counter China

Keir Starmer to announce expansion in region that will also include business club to increase economic ties

Rachel Reeves basks in IMF backing for UK budget rules overhaul

In one session after another, IMF officials repeated backing for principle of increased borrowing to drive growth

State-backed loans to go to firms importing critical minerals into UK

Rachel Reeves to encourage import of raw materials from Commonwealth countries to counter China’s grip on market

Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened

Former chancellor says ‘increasing borrowing means interest rates would be higher for longer’ as Reeves says it will ‘make space for investment’