Dennis Howlett deployed CoveritLive to good effect on the ICAEW’s online communities today to cover the UK budget as it unfolded, as caught (via hash tags) by individual tweets. His reflections on the project here.

Transcript of the budget speech on Hansard online.

Go to say that in the circumstances that this extremely political budget was in one sense well played by Labour.

Be optimistic about growth, and push green tech and digital investment; up the tax on the rich as if anyone but the rich care (and the rich can get accountants to evade these hikes);  and push funding cuts till after the general election.