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Budget 2018: Live

British Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers his latest budget to MPs
British Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers his latest budget to MPs British Chancellor Philip Hammond delivers his latest budget to MPs

British Chancellor Philip Hammond is on his feet in the House of Commons delivering what is expected to be the last budget before Britain leaves the EU.

He addresses MPs buoyed by an estimated £13 billion windfall due to better-than-expected government borrowing figures, but will that translate into a loosening of the public spending purse strings?