Lifting the two-child benefit cap, affordable transport and no new taxes on businesses. These are just a few things that North East leaders are hoping to get out of tomorrow's budget.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves will take to the House of Commons at 12.30pm on Wednesday (November 26) to deliver the Autumn Budget.

Setting out the state of the country's finances, the state of the economy, as well as taxes and plans for public spending, Reeves is widely expected to pull the lever on tax hikes in order to fill a black hole in the public finances.

But leaders in the North East are hoping her speech will set out policy that will help boost business, lift children out of poverty and even reopen the Leamside Line in County Durham.

The North East Child Poverty Commission

The North East Child Pover

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