We asked Metro readers what they wanted to see in next week’s Budget, and then asked our Senior Politics Reporter Craig Munro to figure out what’s going on – here’s what he found. Read more from Craig in Metro’s politics newsletter Alright Gov? which delivers exclusive analysis and more to your inbox every week.

Charley wants: ‘Lower taxes but also I want the two child benefit cap scrapped. There are families out there with children that are going hungry.’

Craig says: The two-child cap is an interesting one. You may have seen the Chancellor and the Prime Minister giving strong hints they intend to scrap it at the Budget in their push to tackle child poverty.

But that was before the reported backtracking on a rise in income tax.

It was widely assumed (including by me) that the end of th

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