Budget 2007: Reaction and analysis

Osborne secretly plans £2.5bn cut to sickness benefit

Leaked document shows that the Chancellor wants to slash support for people too ill to work.

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Howling cuts consensus as Osborne delivers “emergency” Budget

Both the Tories and Lib Dems have made a clear choice. And it is a risky one.

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Has Brown found the vision thing?

Fresh from being likened to Stalin, Gordon Brown sought to establish his credentials as a new and likeable leader for Britain. But did his final Budget answer his critics?

The swansong has a sting

To the end, the Chancellor retained his appetite for taking from the rich to pay the poor. But was he as generous as he seemed?

The playful Chancellor?

The final Brown Budget was the preoccupation of many bloggers this week

Not green at all

Sian Berry gives the Green Party reaction to the budget

Is Brown beginning to look leaden footed?

Tory A-lister Kwasi Kwarteng gives his response to Gordon Brown's final budget which he sees as rather austere

The budget will exacerbate inequality

John McDonnell who wants to challenge Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership gives his reaction to the chancellor's final budget

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