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here's our political correspondent chris mason. rishi sunakff his footwear and socks in a set of photos released by the treasury of the chancellor preparing for today. chatting through the budget with his advisers, always with an eye to his image. his dog nova even features, as do his snacks. but by the time we get to this moment later on... can the country afford l this budget, mr sunak? ..and him addressing the commons, what will really matter is what it means for each of us. the biggest question for him is how much is he going to have to spend on all those public services, particularly the ones that have really suffered during the austerity years, in a world in which the economy, i'm afraid, is smaller as a result of the pandemic than it would have otherwise been. a big issue for many right now is the cost of living, and whether the government's upbeat language matches how things feel week by week for lots of people. this is going to be a brutal and bitter winter for millions of householders who are not going to be able to bear the extra co

here's our political correspondent, chris mason. rishi sunakwing off his footwear and socks in a set of photos released by the treasury of the chancellor preparing for today. chatting through the budget with his advisers, always with an eye to his image. his dog nova even features, as do his snacks. but by the time we get to this moment later on... can the country afford this budget, mr sunak? and him addressing the commons, what will really matter is what it means for each of us. the biggest question for him is how much is he going to have to spend on all those public services, particularly the ones that have really suffered during the austerity years, in a world in which the economy, i'm afraid, is smaller as a result of the pandemic than it would have otherwise been. a big issue for many right now is the cost of living, and whether the government's upbeat language matches how things feel week by week for lots of people. this is going to be a brutal and bitter winter for millions of householders who are not going to be able to bear the extra

chris mason is that the conservative party conference. rishi sunak since 1974, he has raised taxes, the highest level for nearly 30 years. is he still the darling of the party? that's a good question, clive, because of so many ministers here say this is the low tax party, and yet that tax burden is higher than it's been for a generation. as far as popularity, there is no doubt plenty people here see him as a potential future prime minister, plenty people here see him as a potentialfuture prime minister, and probably politically, the going will get tough because he has been splurging money during the pandemic. he said that was sensible with things like the furlough scheme, but now comes the tough moments as he has to start making tough decisions and saying no to things. i've been getting reaction to the afternoon to the chancellor's speech. let me introduce you to craig, from the federation of small businesses. thanks for talking to us. what did you make of the speech? it thanks for talking to us. what did you make of the speech?- you make of the spee

chris mason reports. not the traditional uniform of a chancellor of the exchequer. rishi sunakp here yesterday in a hoodie. before long he'd found his suit — and his fans. plenty of conservatives think he might be prime minister one day. i spotted rishi sunak last night rehearsing here in the auditorium. it's a pretty big moment for him — his first in—person address as a chancellor at a conservative party conference cos he's only been in the job for a little over 18 months. but what an 18 months it's been with the pandemic. almost as soon as he got the job he was announcing an unprecedented splurge in public spending on things like the furlough scheme. expect him today, though, to say his instinct is to be cautious with taxpayers�* money and cut taxes where possible — even though he's had to put them up, and that isn't going down well with some people here. we must always be looking to ensure the money spent by the state is spent officially — efficiently, and the tax burden is reasonable, and we are at the upper reaches of the reasonableness of the tax burden. none of us want t

chris mason. an important day for ricky sunak to get his message across —— rishi sunak, did you think you did?d? it is interesting. _ sunak, did you think you did? it 3 interesting, rishi sunak saying i want to be a low—tech story, i want to reduce taxes if i can, but the caveat that was also a massive one, that he wants to balance the books, that he wants to balance the books, that there is going to be a period ahead where he is not going to be able to reduce taxes because he is trying to make sure that the economy stays in a stable position. so it kind of felt a bit to me like jam tomorrow from the chancellor. saying what he wants to do but not necessarily what he's going to do. let's chat this over with ali mirage, who i am glad to sayjoins me, a columnist for the article. ali, what do you think, do we know much more about rishi sunak today compared to what we knew yesterday? i think this was soon at the smooth, the sequeh — i think this was soon at the smooth, the sequel. you have the james bond -esque _ the sequel. you have the james bond —esque video sequence, very slick, and then_ —esqu

chris mason reports. not the traditional uniform of a chancellor of the exchequer. rishi sunakurned up here yesterday in a hoodie. before long he found his suit — and his fans. plenty of conservatives think he might be prime minister one day. i spotted rishi sunak last night rehearsing here in the auditorium. it's a pretty big moment for him — his first in—person address as a chancellor at a conservative party conference cos he's only been in the job for a little over 18 months. but what an 18 months it's been with the pandemic. almost as soon as he got the job he was announcing an unprecedented splurge in public spending on things like the furlough scheme. expect him today, though, to say his instinct is to be cautious with taxpayers' money and cut taxes where possible — even though he's had to put them up, and that isn't going down well with some people here. we must always be looking to ensure the money spent by the state is spent officially — efficiently, and the tax burden is reasonable, and we are at the upper reaches of the reasonableness of the tax burden. none of us wa

chris mason is there. i was thrown momentarily by the thought of bruno martin rishi sunak at what is going on there.all, as is the thing when the chancellor gives his conference speech, traditionally one of the set piece events of a conservative governing party conference hearing from the chancellor. i don't think we are going to get very much, i don't think anything sparkling new or anything that is a big shift of one of the big levers at a chancellor's control, income tax or anything like that. instead it will be picking up the baton of the conversation you are having a few moments ago around the economic context at the moment at the furloughs scheme coming to an end, the end of the uplift to universal credit, that additional £20 a week offered to recipients of universal credit in the pandemic. i think we will hear quite a bit from the chancellor about additional support for people to get into jobs and stay injobs, particularly younger for people to get into jobs and stay in jobs, particularly younger people but also the over 50s. i think we will also get a bit of rishi sunak doing the, this is wh

chris mason, bbc news, at westminster. 0ur chief political corresondent, adam fleming, says borisjohnson and rishi sunak this budget. the short—term politics has started this morning where you have labour saying the government has made the wrong priorities, so reducing the taxation on prosecco and air passenger duty for domestic flights, for example, and reducing a quite complicated tax that banks pay. rachel reeves, the shadow chancellor, says that would have been better focused on cutting vat for domestic fuel to help people with the cost of living, so this morning the chancellor is having to defend what he has done on the cost of living because also the think tanks like the resolution foundation and the institute for fiscal studies who churn through the documents overnight and provide analysis next morning are kind ofjoining in that argument as well, and rishi sunak is pointing to the £2 billion he is putting into universal credit, the £1 billion the fuel duty freeze will cost the treasury, and also a few other measures. but i think the debate over the next few days and weeks and actually the next fe