Budget 2017: What To Expect On Housing, Universal Credit And More

Chancellor Philip Hammond will walk a political tightrope on Wednesday as he delivers his second Budget since taking over at the Treasury in 2016.With a disappointing election result still fresh in the collective Conservative mind, there is pressure from many in the party to end austerity and turn on the spending taps to try to win over public support.Tory MPs have been pitching their ideas directly to the Chancellor since September after he asked for tweet-sized proposals for the Budget, and La