Far from the £15 billion promised by the Chancellor, the real figure for housing is closer to a much reduced £6 billion over the next 5 years.

Liberal Democrat research based on OBR figures shows that:

In today’s budget, Philip Hammond announced that he would consider charges on single-use plastic items to reduce waste.

It comes following a Liberal Democrat campaign to introduce a charge on disposable coffee cups, to reduce the billions of cups thrown away in the UK each year.

The government’s U-turns on Universal Credit are welcome but beg the question: Why have they taken this long?

Philip Hammond is spending £3bn of taxpayers money on Brexit instead of investing in the country’s overstretched public services.

And the government’s Brexit strategy is so vague that the Official for Budgetary Responsibility could not even factor it into their forecasts.