Craig Mackinlay: To free up more housing, reduce punitive tax rates on selling second homes

Under the current regime, the tax avoidance measure is to simply hang onto the property until death. The Chancellor should fix that flaw.

Alex Morton: A win for those spending Ministers would be a defeat for the taxpayer – not just Hammond and Truss

The Comprehensive Spending Review has to be seen as a way to reset the narrative. Government need to focus on reform as a positive – not expenditure.

“I can break her” – Williamson’s war for defence spending intensifies, and targets the Prime Minister

What is the Defence Secretary up to? Why now? And is the extraordinary threat he is reported to have made true?

James Frayne: The NHS spending announcement should be a medium-term winner for the Conservatives

There is zero chance that the public are going to back any meaningful reform of the service any time soon.

Dominic Cummings, NHS hero

The Vote Leave director is the onlie begetter of this cashfest. But we’ve said it before and say it again: Britain can’t tax its way to prosperity – or a better health service.

Which taxes should Tories cut? 1) Sam Dumitriu: No virtue-signalling giveaways, hammer taxes that hold back growth

After our recent series asked ‘What should Tories tax?’, the Adam Smith Institute’s Head of Research kicks off a new mini-series seeking routes to lower taxes.

Nicky Morgan: It’s too soon to abandon fiscal discipline, but the Spring Statement is a chance to communicate our vision

Day-to-day spending being brought back into balance is good news, and it makes some spending decisions easier, but beware hype about the ‘end of austerity’.

Natalie Elphicke: Not since the moon landings have we built 300,000 houses a year. Here’s how that target can be met.

Right now, a whole host of things are said to be top infrastructure priorities. Yet, remarkably, housing is not among them. This needs to change.

James Frayne: Wanted, urgently – a Downing Street Director of Strategy

Someone has to take control of the Government grid and plot a series of activities designed to reinforce each other and to build a positive narrative.

Judy Terry: For Britain to thrive, science teaching must be promoted

Councils could encourage more schools to specialise and give more children in care the chance to attend boarding schools.

WATCH: Shapps – Hammond’s Budget “cheered the backbenchers up”

But he says the way the Chancellor presented the OBR’s growth figures was “interesting”.

The Budget morning-after. The papers could be a lot worse for the Chancellor.

The FT has the balanced “Grim outlook overshadows housing drive” while the Times goes for “Hammond eases off austerity”. The i has “Hammond’s hard-hat budget”.

Steve Barclay: A balanced Budget which ensures that Britain is fit for the future

It continues to clear the deficit, prepare for Brexit, and back our businesses with the support they need to boost productivity.

WATCH: McDonnell flounders when grilled on his plan for nationalisations and higher borrowing

The Shadow Chancellor doesn’t know the current cost of debt interest.

Andrew Gimson’s Budget sketch: Hammond, like an over-eager gym instructor, promises to get us fit

The Chancellor pretended to be bold when he was actually being cautious.