MPs Approve Osborne's Budget After Climbdowns

At the end of four days of bitter debate in the Commons, the Government comfortably won the main vote on the Budget by 310 votes to 275, a majority of 35. The vote came after a week in which George Osborne was rocked by Iain Duncan Smith's sensational resignation and forced to abandon cuts in disability benefits after a mutiny by Conservative MPs. After enraging Opposition MPs by failing to turn up in the Commons to answer an urgent question about the welfare changes on Monday, the Chancellor op