Stephen Mullen @StephenMullen
Ed Balls (with a massive grin on his face): “the economy isn’t growing” This is why no-one trusts Ed Balls with the economy. #budget2013
Victoria Paxton @vphotos
Budget 2013: don’t scapegoat the Evening Standard’s tweeter. It’s probably just some poor kid on £18k
Richard Murphy @RichardJMurphy
Staggering – Osborne walks backwards from a financial transaction tax by scrapping a big chunk of stamp duty #budget2013
Telegraph Finance @TeleFinance
Osborne says abolishing stamp duties on shares traded on growth markets. “We’re getting rid of a financial transaction tax” #budget2013
Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis
Remember this ISNT the #budget2013, this is just the headlines speech. The real budget’s 100s pages, lots can be hidden #budgettranslations
Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK
Chancellor: “We are building the most competitive tax system in the world.” Wonder how you define that? #budget
Tom Swarbrick @TomsonSwarb
Evening Standard broke #budget embargo and it quite literally moved a market! £ recovered but extraordinary to see that happen
David Lammy @DavidLammy
Reading behind the lines Osborne’s getting worried about inflation. Things can only get worse #BBCBudget #budget #budget13
Luke Westaway @lukewestaway
Cameron looking like someone told him his flat is flooding, but he didn’t have time to make a call before the speech. #budget
Sophie H @soph1114
Inflation target for BoE reaffirmed as 2%. BUT “low and stable inflation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for prosperity” #budget
Mark van door @marky_red
I know what’s in Osborne’s red box. Some colouring-in, crayons, a maths for idiots book and a pair of blinkers. #Budget
Marcus Stead @MarcusStead
The ‘debt’ is still increasing all the time. It’s only the ‘deficit’ (the amount we borrow year on year), that is being reduced #budget
Susan @TheatreCameo
Thought I ‘d tuned in to a new sitcom. Oh wait I have. The Deputy Speaker could do with a whip and a chair.
Martyn Saville @martynsaville
Danny Alexander does know that the #Budget is televised, right? Wakey wakey!
Edd Kimber @TheBoyWhoBakes
Parliament seems like a bunch of children jeering at each other and blaming each other for their problems – sick of it #budget
Robert Colvile @rcolvile
Ten minutes in, #budget speech can be summarised in 7 words: ‘It’s awful, but it’s not my fault.’
