Budget 2026 live: chancellor says scrapping gas standing charges will save 60% of homes £45 a year

John Healey says UK faces ‘difficult moment’ as he prepares to deliver first budget of Andy Burnham’s governmentYou be the chancellor: play our budget game to see if you can balance the booksThe Financial Times is reporting this morning that John Healey will ”use his budget to scrap controversial plans to slash the annual cash Isa allowance from £20,000 to £12,000, after concluding it was the wrong way to persuade people to invest more in stocks and shares”.Most people in the City work on the basis that, if the FT is reporting a budget story on the day it is