Rachel Reeves delivered her Budget on Wednesday after a whirlwind of speculation about which taxes she will hike to help balance the books.

Here we look at some of the measures the Chancellor announced as she seeks to fill a multi-billion pound black hole in the public finances and build up a bigger buffer so she does not have to keep coming back for more taxpayers' cash.

• Income tax : After a press conference and behind-the-scenes briefings aimed at preparing the country for a manifesto-busting increase in income tax, Ms Reeves then abandoned the idea of becoming the first Chancellor in half a century to take that step.

The measure was dropped from the "hokey cokey budget", as Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle described it, after the Treasury apparently received forecasts from the b

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