Iain Dale: Why Ken Clarke’s memoirs aren’t worth what Macmillan will pay for them

Plus: Contrite Soubry. Ashcroft’s Party. The Chancellor’s forecasts and the OBR’s admission. P.S: Re those Clarke memoirs, I admit that I can’t wait to read them.

James Sproule: Osborne has posed problems for business recently. But this Budget was, on balance, good news.

Especially so for smaller firms and entrepreneurs.

Budget trouble brewing over disability benefits

Andrew Percy sounds confident that there will be sufficient Tory rebels to defeat the Government.

What Osborne gave – and what he took – in yesterday’s Budget

And how it compares to all his previous Budgets and Autumn Statements.

Less a Budget for renewal than a Budget for the referendum

It felt more like a pre-election than a post-election one – and was shot through by a sense of the Chancellor’s political mortality.

Dia Chakravarty: This sugar tax will taste sour to poorer people

And evidence from abroad suggests that it will fail in its declared aim of reducing obesity.

WATCH: “We choose to put the next generation first”

The Chancellor’s Budget Statement in full.

We ask our panel: What did you think of the Budget?

Including contributions from Andrew Allison, Rebecca Coulson, Suella Fernandes MP, Andrew Lilico, Tim Loughton MP and Lord Porter.

Andrew Gimson’s Budget sketch: Osborne sounded as boastful as Lawson in his pomp

The Chancellor was a commanding figure, Jeremy Corbyn could do nothing to spoil things for him, and Andrew Tyrie will now check whether the figures add up.

Your at-a-glance guide to the Budget’s economic and fiscal forecasts

We’ve sifted through the Office for Budget Responsibility’s supplementary documents so that you don’t have to.

The Budget. Osborne should dare to be dull.

The Chancellor should resist the temptation to ease the path to June’s referendum and further his leadership ambitions.

The importance of infrastructure to Osborne

He sees it as a way of supporting the economy through its times of need. But, politically and practically, it can also go wrong.

Osborne must show he really believes in lower taxation

Boris has just cut the Council Tax precept by 6.4 per cent. Does Osborne have such clear credentials?

Tim Loughton: George, I’ll have another round please.

Cutting duty on wines and spirits has boosted revenue. So why shouldn’t the Chancellor serve up more reductions in next week’s Budget.

The Commons needs Cameron as a not-so-much-elder statesman

He should stay on to give it the benefit of his finest hours, worst moments, close shaves, cock-ups, might-have-beens and, yes, wisdom.