Tory MPs rally around Hammond's budget after Corbyn attacks

Corbyn referred to the government’s housing policies as ‘accounting tricks and empty promises’.Conservative MPs have countered Jeremy Corbyn’s swingeing criticism of the budget as the work of “a government no longer fit for office” with a broad endorsement of Philip Hammond, in sharp contrast to their open reservations about the chancellor’s plans last year.Hammond’s colleagues used the first of four days of scheduled debate about the budget to pra