Ten things to look out for in next week’s Budget

Including: fan charts and Brexit, sofas and mergers.

The Hinkley Point debate reveals that indecision has its price, too

For decades, Governments allowed British nuclear expertise to atrophy, and refused to make decisions about new capacity.

Our Cabinet league table. Cameron’s ratings go negative. Boris’s are the lowest on record. Feelings are running high in the Tory family.

Leave supporters mark Remain Ministers down. Remain supporters mark Leave Ministers down. Gove heads the table on our lowest top score ever.

Boris powers into a double digit lead in our next Party Leader survey

Pro-Leave support piles up for the Mayor, Gove and Fox – leaving Osborne and May with most of the pro-Remain rest.

Mark Field: As the Budget approaches, the storm clouds gather – and the long haul back to sustainable recovery goes on

For too long, millions of our fellow Britons have lacked the skills or consistent record of employment to justify their level of workplace earnings.

The reform of pensions becomes a casualty of division over Europe

A large part of the reason for the Chancellor backing off is the interplay between the EU referendum and Tory MPs’ views.

The way we work now

Home working is on the rise. Self-employment is on the rise. Part-time labour is on the rise. Osborne should heed the downsides as well as the benefits.

Omar Khan: How serious and enduring will Cameron’s commitment to tackle racial inequality prove to be?

There is a need for a common vision that has buy-in from the party faithful to make them long-lasting – whoever takes over as the next Prime Minister.

Jonathan Carr-West: It’s time for the Chancellor to be bold and go all in on fiscal devolution

Either we trust local government to manage its own finances, or we don’t.

Snapshots of the EU referendum campaign so far

Two weeks or so down, four months or so to go.

Iain Dale: The bandwagon is beginning to roll. And on its side is a poster proclaiming: “Gove for Leader”

Plus: Cameron is formidable. How does Boris get away with it? And: the BBC’s disgraceful sacking of Tony Blackburn as cover for its mistakes over Savile.

David Hodge: Conservative councillors are working for a fair funding deal from central Government

We have lobbied the Chancellor hard and it’s achieved results.

Iain Dale: If Boris backs Leave and becomes leader, it will stink

Plus: Montgomerie’s legacy. This referendum is a pathetic attempt to hoodwink the British people. Two LibDems in a room at the same time. And: I meet Alex James, not Alex James.

Osborne needs the unofficial opposition to save him from himself

Labour aren’t going to restrain the Chancellor’s worst fiscal instincts. More than ever, the wonks, watchdogs and writers will have to step in.

Osborne’s latest retreat on Short Money fits a pattern

If he wants to lead the Party and the country, the Chancellor is going to have to start seeing through these plans of his.